Chapter 11 - Voting
and divisions
The Constitution entrenches the rule that decisions are
made in the Senate by majority voting; it is not open to the Senate, as it is
to houses of some other legislatures, to alter the principle of majority voting
and to adopt some other method of making decisions by changing its internal
rules of procedure. This entrenchment of the principle of majority voting is in
accord with the theory of the geographically distributed majority underlying
the composition of the Senate (see Chapter 1, The Senate and its Constitutional
Role).
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