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 Immigration and Naturalization Service versus Chadha. it stated: * * * Art. II. 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. So. this principle. while not written Into the text of the Constitution. was explicitly adopted by the Constitutional Convention.
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