Rights of passage: Majority rule in congress

Duke Law Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-

  Rubenfeld, Jed ^a  

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EID: 0043039766     PISSN: 00127086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1372966     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. See Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361, 381 (1989) ("In adopting this flexible understanding of separation of powers, we simply have recognized Madison's teaching that the greatest security against tyranny - the accumulation of excessive authority in a single Branch - lies not in a hermetic division among the Branches, but in a carefully crafted system of checked and balanced power . . . .").
2. See RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (104th Cong.), Rule XXI(5)(c), reprinted in 141 CONG. REC. H23 (daily ed. Jan. 5, 1995).
3. See id. ("No bill . . . carrying a Federal income tax rate increase shall be considered as passed . . . unless so determined by a vote of not less than three-fifths of the Members voting.").
4. See An Open Letter to Congressman Gingrich, 104 YALE L.J. 1539 (1995) [hereinafter Open Letter] (signed by Bruce Ackerman and sixteen others).