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Definition of Quorum

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  QUORUM   noun
A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it.  In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911
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