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1494. CONGRESS, Adjournment.—

The
Houses of Congress hold [the right of adjournment],
not from the Constitution, but
from nature. [95]
Official Opinion. Washington ed. vii, 499. Ford ed., v, 209.
(1790)

See Adjournment.

 
[95]

In all the extracts respecting the National Legislature,
the date sufficiently indicates the particular
Congress—Continental, Federal, or Confederation,
and United States,—to which Jefferson referred.——Editor.