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These clauses in the Constitution raised sincere questions about how often “time to time” should be. While Lee promoted “short, convenient periods,”(1) Madison countered that “…if the accounts of the public receipts and expenditures were to be published at short, stated periods, they would not be so full and ...

  This clause empowers each House to govern itself. While one may criticize the other, they are powerless to force a change in the other House, as long as neither violates its enumerated powers of the Constitution. The Senate allows its members to filibuster; the House does not. If there is disorder ...