Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manifested such extreme early spring lassitude that one session was delayed last week for almost an hour until a quorum could be obtained...
...section of "The General Laws of the Massachusetts Colony" published in October 1659, provides that capital cases are to be judged by the General Court" (Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1887, 1). During the nineteenth century, they were customarily brought at once before the Supreme Judicial Court, and before a quorum of that Court. The General Statues of 1860 provides that four justices constitute a quorum of the court; and that in capital cases. If the prisoner does not plead guilty, the court may assign him counsel. . Preparatory to a trial to be had before the full court...
...more than one-half of all the members of a House constitutes a quorum. The Amendment was passed by two-thirds of a quorum but not by two-thirds of all the members...
...Supreme Court of the U. S. in its first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1804: "The idea that two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and of the whole number of Representatives are required by the Constitution to propose an amendment is certainly correct." Under this interpretation, the Amendment would not have passed Congress in 1917; the present Prohibition law is clearly unconstitutional...
...promptly deemed physical ly fit enough to succeed frazzled Senator Moses of New Hampshire in the Presiding Officer's chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them...