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Nancy S. Couturie '65 moved, and it was voted, that voting be at a general membership meeting--although votes by mall would also be accepted--that three-fourths of the membership constitute a quorum, and that a veto of one-half of those voting be sufficient to block any-one's election...
...next day, the vote was 19-17 in favor of the amendment; but since a 2/3 majority was required, the amendment was defeated. Immediately after the vote, Phillips sensed the next move--a censure. Asking some of his supporters to leave, he adjourned the meeting for lack of a quorum...
...point of order was raised, with several members of the Council claiming that a quorum was not present...
...While the Council secretary read the roll, several opponents of the new constitution left the room, and the council was left without a quorum...
...prevent controversial issues from coming to a vote, parliamentarians of the past have invented such devices as the filibuster, the return to committee, the pigeonhole and the quorum call. Last week the U.N. General Assembly achieved an ingenious new direction in creative parliamentarianism: the elective nonvote...