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procedure for the enactment of bills, and the law then
says Ayes and Nays on final passage shall be entered
in the Journal.
Also it requires the entire vote of the entire
membership.
The pint I am driving at asa general principal,
the Constitution should be very conservative in providincr
procedural details. Most of this should be handled by rule.
I might say the federal Constitution is veryr
very conservative in requiring procedural details.
Maryland did run into this snarl on numerous
occasions. In 1949, the case of Maryland versus Lang
involved a situation in which the legislative practice was
not to enter into the recorded roll call how each member
voted on final passage r howler, there is a Constitutional
provision in Maryland which reads as follows; "Each House
shall keep a journal of its proceedings and cause the same
to be published, he Yeas and Nays o the members on any
question shall, upon any call of five members of the house,
be entered on the journal."
Section 8 says, "No bill shall become law unless