Assertion: senate's right | /r/CapableOf | approve its own rules
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text: In 1957, Vice President Richard Nixon (and thus President of the Senate) wrote an advisory opinion that no Senate may constitutionally enact a rule that deprives a future Senate of the right to approve its own rules by the vote of a simple majority.:236-39 (Nixon made clear that he was speaking for himself only, not making a formal ruling.)