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hopefully it would never have to be used. It would be
used, I think, at the one particular where its use would
be efficacious, in the closing days of this Convention
when we are debating either on second or third reading,
but certainly second reading and the minority, blessed
with a stamina and lung power, could make an extended
stand. In the ordinary legislative body it wouldn't
make a great deal. of difference, but when you have a dead-
line, as we have, to get your work done, it would mean that
in the end, provided the minority was determined enough
and strong and persistent enough, the minority could
require the majority to capitulate, compromise in a way that:
the majority otherwise might not want to compromise; but
I think the ordinary case, most of the days of this Con-
vention, if the delegate went over the fifteen-minute
limit, very little would be done about it, and if he
needed to get permission of the Convention, I am sure it
would be given. The Congress of the United States has
a similar rule in, I believe, the Committee of the Whole.
For those reasons the Committee has urged or recommended
the adoption of a new Rule 20 (a). |
