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quorum
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Definition:a sufficient majority to conduct business---n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.Ambose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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The Speaker of the House, and the Hon. Mr. Perley Beecroft, Vice-President of the United States and Presiding Officer of the Senate, had the power to declare that quorums were present. (If a lot of members chose to dally in the district jail, enjoying themselves instead of attending Congress, whose fault was that?)
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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When he had finished with them they wouldn’t even have had a fucking quorum left.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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