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Originally posted by bilmore
To which rules are you referring? (Filibusters haven't been around "forever". As con law goes, they're only about middle-earth-era.)
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To take just one example that I found with a very quick Google search, the old
blue slips. (Kos is Kos, whatever, but the particulars of this post match what I recall.)
The Senate has traditionally permitted individual Senators to slow things down in various ways. You may think this is good, and you may think it's bad, and you may even change your view from case to case depending on whose ox is being gored, but you can't say that procedures of this sort are unconstitutional because they thwart the will of the majority.
I'll wait here while club goes and looks for something reflecting the framers' abhorrence for parliamentary procedure, etc.
