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Pirates of the Senate
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The Filibuster - A Brief History
Wilson may have lost the battle over the armed ship building, but he managed to twist the senate's arm so that it had no choice but to reform the filibuster. Some senators wanted it to be a simple majority, meaning anything more than half ends debate. So the senate adopts rule 22 that establishes a two thirds clocee,. At the time, there were only forty eight states, so two senators from each state equals 96 senators. Two thirds of that equalled 64 senators. And if they got together and agreed to invoke clocher, then a filibuster would end. Debate would stop and voting would begin. During jim crow, local and state laws were put in place to keep
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