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today, or like yesterday, a nice wintery day, in which the
attendance is likely to be low. A 0011111111100 chairman can
line up his people for early that day, call a bill up, and
get it through with a very limited number of people.
Another thin which can happen under the majority recommenda-
tion is that in those instances in which a great deal of
pressure is on members to vote in a particular way, he can
get by with passing in many more circumstances than he can
under the constitutional majority rule.
In one of the sections, three-fifths votes are
required for the expulsion of a member. That is tied also
to a present voting rule, so that if you have a cruorum
present, for example, in the Senate, of 21 people, three-
fifths of the 21 people could expell a member. The same
is true in the House.
This step, which the majority would have us
take, is so far out of practice with most American states
I find it incredible. The present Maryland Constitution
requires the constitutional majority. The draft prepared
by the Constitutional Convention Commission requires
a constitutional majority. All but a very few, five of