two-thirds rule
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Under the new two-thirds rule, that will be raised to 10 out of 15 jurors.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025
Mr. Vairma, the Hoffa-backed candidate for president, supported some of the reform measures as well, including ending the two-thirds rule, and seemed to try to seize the reformist mantle himself at times during the campaign.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021
Baumgartner said the two-thirds rule would give the Senate “discipline” that it needs to be able to fully fund education.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2016
The two-thirds rule was dissolved in 1936, which didn’t dissolve convention drama.
From Salon • May 14, 2016
The two-thirds rule, as Colonel Benton declared, had been originally framed, "not to thwart a majority, but to strengthen it."
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
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