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John Shadegg: “Or to convict a President in impeachment proceedings. If you add those supermajority provisions or requirements that…”

On the recordApril 21, 1998
Or to convict a President in impeachment proceedings. If you add those supermajority provisions or requirements that were in our original Constitution with those that have been added to the Constitution by amendment, there are today already in our Constitution 10 different provisions which require not a simple majority, not 50 percent plus one, but a supermajority. And if it is appropriate in those circumstances, you and I are here tonight arguing that it should be appropriate in this one where we actually reach into people's pockets and take the productive efforts of their labor out of their pockets and give them to someone else to spend.
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John Shadegg
Arizona
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Discussing the need for supermajority requirements in legislative decisions.

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