定足数

QUORUMていそくすう[/ˈkwɔrəm/]名詞

解説

審議機関のメンバーが自分勝にやるのに十分な人数。

米上院では財政委員長とホワイトハウスの使者、下院では議長と悪魔がいれば成立する。

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Original

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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