Letter from Seth Barrett Tillman to Jimmy Y T MA, Counsel to the Legislature, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Counting Quorums

3 Pages Posted: 14 Jul 2014 Last revised: 16 Jul 2014

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Seth Barrett Tillman

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

Date Written: July 13, 2014

Abstract

re: Counting Quorums

Dear Legislative Counsel,

Thank you for writing. I am happy to send you a copy of my publication on the Quorum Clause of the U.S. Constitution. I have attached a copy. It is short (and, perhaps, a bit informal), but I hope useful to scholars and practitioners such as yourself.

You ask an interesting question — Do members have an unlimited right to seek quorum calls, even if repetitive, even if they effectively amount to a filibuster? I have not written on that precise question, but I have thought about that question for some years and corresponded with a wide array of parliamentarians in the English-speaking world following lex parliamentaria. I offer some thoughts below. Everything I suggest below assumes that any meeting was duly noticed under the relevant organic law: the constitution, statutes, standing parliamentary orders and rules, etc.

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Keywords: quorum

Suggested Citation

Tillman, Seth Barrett, Letter from Seth Barrett Tillman to Jimmy Y T MA, Counsel to the Legislature, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Counting Quorums (July 13, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2465548

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