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The New DU. Reply #52: What I find particularly disgusting are the "scholarly opinions"
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TahitiNut
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Sun Nov-28-04 03:15 PM
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| 52. What I find particularly disgusting are the "scholarly opinions" |
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... regarding the Constitutional legitimacy of the Senate's rules regarding supermajorities on various procedural matters. The argument that there are only a few Constitutionally enumerated (and exclusive) instances where supermajorities are required totally ignores the fact that the Constitution is deliberately silent on Senate procedural matters except insofar as granting exclusive authority for such procedural rules to the Senate itself. These supermajority requirements are not on matters of legislation or confirmation, but are solely procedural in substance. Thus, the enumerative exclusivity principle just doesn't apply.
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