Minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly necessary to conduct business
For other uses, see Quorum (disambiguation).
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Vote cast against Themistocles. A quorum of 6,000 was required for ostracism under the Athenian democracy, according to Plutarch; a similar quorum was necessary in the following century for grants of citizenship.[1]
A quorum is the minimum number of members of a group necessary to constitute the group at a meeting.[2] In a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature), a quorum is necessary to conduct the business of that group. According to Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, the "requirement for a quorum is protection against totally unrepresentative action in the name of the body by an unduly small number of persons."[3] In contrast, a plenum is a meeting of the full (or rarely nearly full) body. A body, or a meeting or vote of it, is quorate if a quorum is present (or casts valid votes).
The term quorum is from a Middle English wording of the commission formerly issued to justices of the peace, derived from Latin quorum, "of whom", genitive plural of qui, "who".[4] As a result, quora as plural of quorum is not a valid Latin formation. In modern times a quorum might be defined as the minimum number of voters needed for a valid election.
^Sinclair, R. K. (1988). Democracy and Participation in Athens. Cambridge University Press. pp. 114–9. ISBN 0521423899.
^"Definition of QUORUM". www.merriam-webster.com. 23 November 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
^Robert, Henry M.; et al. (2011). Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-306-82020-5. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017.
^"Quorum Archived 23 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine," Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition.
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