He also has the opportunity to directly influence it by using his veto to stop a bill ; however, his veto can be overruled by a three-fifths majority vote in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of members of the Sejm ( 230 ).

In 1975, the Democratic Senate majority, having achieved a net gain of four seats in the 1974 Senate elections to a strength of 61 ( with an additional Independent caucusing with them for a total of 62 ), reduced the necessary supermajority to three-fifths ( 60 out of 100 ).

* The Senate votes on the petition ; three-fifths of the whole number of Senators ( sixty with no vacancies ) is the required majority ; however, when cloture is invoked on a question of changing the rules of the Senate, two-thirds of the Senators voting ( not necessarily two-thirds of all Senators ) is the requisite majority.

Continuance and reduction only needed a majority, but local no licence needed three-fifths majority.

From 1908, national prohibition became the third choice instead of reduction of licences-needing a three-fifths majority.

The three-fifths majority was replaced with a fifty percent majority.

The President has the right to veto legislation, although veto may be overridden by the assembly by a three-fifths majority vote.

The bill shall then be repassed only by a qualified majority of three-fifths in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of Deputies.

The Byrd Rule allows Senators to raise points of order ( which can be waived only by a three-fifths majority of Senators, provisions that fail are colloquially referred to as " Byrd droppings ") against provisions in the reconciliation bills that are " extraneous ," where extraneous is defined in the rule according to one of six provisions.

Since the reconciliation bill has covered as many as ten years, the fifth provision can have the effect of requiring that any tax cut or spending increase be approved by a three-fifths majority, or else the law must return to its previous state after ten years.

This is responsible for the use of sunset clauses in several recent budget acts, when proposed tax cuts commanded majority support but not the necessary three-fifths majority to suspend the Byrd Rule.

Tunku pressed on further for an agreement on at least three-fifths of the elected majority but the Secretary of State wouldn't commit to his suggestion.

# require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase ;

Together with a provision ( Article 42 ) that certain decisions required the majority consent of each half ( Czech and Slovak ) of the Chamber of the Nations, and a provision ( Article 41 ) that constitutional amendments, organic laws, the election of the president and declarations of war required a three-fifths supermajority not only in the Chamber of the People but also of each half ( Czech and Slovak ) of the Chamber of the Nations, this institutional reform was designed to end Slovak fear of Czech domination of the legislative branch of the government.

If once again the required majority is not attained, voting is repeated after five days, the person receiving the votes of a three-fifths majority of the total number of Members of Parliament shall be elected President of the Republic.

In the first ballot the votes of a three-fifths majority of the total number of Members of Parliament is required.

The article provided that once a bill had been approved by both houses of the Oireachtas ( or just by the Dáil, if it had overridden the Senate ), its enactment into law could be suspended if, within seven days, either a majority of the Senate or three-fifths of all members of the Dáil so requested.

In the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority is required to bring out a vote of cloture, to end a filibuster.

In Rhode Island, USA a three-fifths majority of the Rhode Island General Assembly is required to overturn a veto.

On February 12, 1788, Madison in the Federalist Letter No. 54, stated that the Constitutional three-fifths compromise clause was the best alternative for the slaves current condition and for determining representation of citizens in Congress.

The three-fifths clause was a compromise between Southern and Northern states in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.

Following the Civil War, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments changed this arrangement by ( respectively ) abolishing slavery, and superseding the three-fifths clause by requiring that a state's population for apportionment purposes was to be determined by " counting the whole number of Persons " in the state, " excluding Indians not taxed.

Since slavery was abolished, the three-fifths compromise no longer applied to counting the population of blacks.

Identifying the South ’ s domination of the government as the cause of much of their problems, the proposed amendments included “ the repeal of the three-fifths clause, a requirement that two-thirds of both houses of Congress agree before any new state could be admitted to the Union, limits on the length of embargoes, and the outlawing of the election of a president from the same state to successive terms, clearly aimed at the Virginians .” The war was over before the proposals were submitted to President Madison.

They wanted to plan an event that would capture the attention of Congress ( which was dominated by representatives from the South because of the three-fifths compromise under the Constitution ) and the country to promote an end to slavery in the District of Columbia.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.

The three-fifths ratio was not a new concept.

Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ( 1865 ), the three-fifths clause was rendered moot.

What the SIGGRAPH audience saw was the first three-fifths or so of the film, ending a cliffhanger moment with Tinny running into his box and watching in horror through the box's cellophane as Billy advances towards him.

Most importantly it was provided that the Senate could, if three-fifths of its members agreed, demand a binding referendum on any bill.

Perle's important work on Berg includes documenting that the third act of Lulu, rather than being an unfinished sketch, was actually three-fifths complete and that the Lyric Suite contains a secret program dedicated to Berg's love-affair.

In 1913, the army reserve's drill hall, which now lay between the rear of the Art Gallery and the rapidly expanding University of Bristol, was purchased by the two institutions, three-fifths of the complex falling to the Museum and Art Gallery, the rest to the University.

10 June 2004: Former President, Gaston Flosse, and his conservative party, Tahoeraa Huiraatira, stayed away from the presidential ( Le président de la Polynésie française ) election, thus invalidating it, as a three-fifths quorum was required.

His special concern in this election was the effort being made by Whigs to determine apportionment in the state legislature based on the " federal ratio " of each slave counting as three-fifths of a person.

Most importantly it was provided that the Seanad could, if three-fifths of its members agreed, demand a binding referendum on any bill.

The Three-Fifths Compromise assessing population by adding the number of free persons to three-fifths of " all other persons " ( slaves ) was agreed to without serious dispute.

Years earlier, when attempting to assess a national taxation system, the Confederation Congress had concluded that a slave was three-fifths as productive as a free person.

An amendment to the Constitution that would require a balanced budget unless sanctioned by a three-fifths vote in both houses of Congress ( H. J. Res. 1, passed by the US House Roll Call: 300-132, 1 / 26 / 95 ; rejected by the US Senate Roll Call: 65-35, 3 / 2 / 95, two-thirds required ), and legislation ( not an amendment ) provide the president with a line-item veto ( H. R. 2, passed by the US House Roll Call: 294-134, 2 / 6 / 95 ; conferenced with S. 4 and enacted with substantial changes 4 / 9 / 96 ).

A vetoed bill is returned to the house of origin, where a vote may be taken to override the governor's veto ; a three-fifths vote of both houses is required to override a veto.

The last state constitutional convention, held in 1912, gave the governor a line-item veto, but reduced the supermajority required for overriding the veto to three-fifths.

In New York, a three-fifths majority is required to pass most tax increases.

Supermajoritarian rules, such as the three-fifths supermajority rule required to end a filibuster in the United States Senate, have been proposed as preventative measures of this problem.

Adopted in 1868, Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had already removed the three-fifths method of counting slaves, and instead required " counting the whole number of all persons in each State.

Other changes included limiting the prosecutor general's term to five years, forcing an early election in case of a no-confidence vote and reducing the majority required to elect the president from three-fifths to half the MPs.

A three-fifths majority of all senators duly sworn ( 60 senators, assuming there is no more than one vacancy ) is required to approve the cloture motion and proceed to a vote on the main issue.