To quote the Court: The general rule of all parliamentary bodies is that. when a quorum is present. tie act of a majority of the quorum is the act of the body. This has been the rule for all time. except so far as In any given case the terms of the organic act under which the body is assembled have prescribed specific limitations. * * * No such limitation is found In the Federal Constitution. and therefore the general law of such bodies obtains. The Court expressed the same understanding as recently as 1983. when. in lmmigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadhta. it stated: * * * Art. It. sect. 2. requires that twothirds of the Senators present concur in the Senates consent to a treaty. rather than the simple majority required for passage of legislation.
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