RIGHTS OF PASSAGE: MAJORITY RULE IN CONGRESS
@inproceedings{RUBENFELDt2011RIGHTSOP, title={RIGHTS OF PASSAGE: MAJORITY RULE IN CONGRESS}, author={RUBENFELDt}, year={2011} }
The United States government is a government not of rigorously separated powers, but of overlapping and concurrent powers: a government of checked and balanced powers.' What strikes the balance? A few spare words of the Constitution. This is why the efforts of one body of government to alter the long-established understanding of those words are taken so seriously. In a complex structure, small changes in one body's movements can result in systemic shifts. A case in point involves House Rule XXI…
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