Why two-thirds is not a fixed number | The Manila Times
THIS has been a much-discussed topic lately — considering the impending impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, and there are experts ranged on either side of the divide: some, advocating a fixed number — 16, that being the numerical value of two-thirds of 24, the entire constitutional membership of the Senate; others arguing that the two-thirds required for conviction is not and cannot be a fixed number. I am of the latter persuasion.