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1586. CONGRESS, Sessions of.—

Each
house of Congress possesses the natural right
of governing itself, and, consequently, of fixing,
its own times and places of meeting, so
far as it has not been abridged by the law of
those who employ them, that is to say, by
the Constitution.—
Official Opinion. Washington ed. vii, 496. Ford ed., v, 206.
(1790)