48 U.S.C. § 1423b
Selection and qualification of members; officers; rules and regulations; quorum
The legislature shall be the judge of the selection and qualification of its own members. It shall choose from its members its own officers, determine its rules and procedure, not inconsistent with this chapter, and keep a journal. The quorum of the legislature shall consist of a simple majority of its members. No bill shall become a law unless it shall have been passed at a meeting, at which a quorum was present, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and voting, which vote shall be by yeas and nays.
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case, 2002–2002 · leading case: Repub. Party of Guam I Mina' Bente Singko Na Liheslaturan Guahan v. Carl T.C. Gutierrez, as Governor of Guam, & the Gov't of Guam, 277 F.3d 1086 (9th Cir. 2002).
Repub. Party of Guam I Mina' Bente Singko Na Liheslaturan Guahan v. Carl T.C. Gutierrez, as Governor of Guam, & the Gov't of Guam, 277 F.3d 1086 (9th Cir. 2002). “In their complaint, the plaintiffs also allege that federal question jurisdiction arises under 48 U.S.C. § 1423b. The district court concluded that this section of the Organic Act, which grants the Legislature power over the selection and qualification of its own members, does…”
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