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
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
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