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Plainly and unmistakably, the provision in our Constitution authorizing the Chief Justice to preside in the Senate, of which he is not a member, was modelled on the English original.
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Sumner points out that the provision for the Chief Justice to preside in the Senate is modeled after English parliamentary practice.
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