Well, they would be the House's rights, not the individual member's. It's Professor Heard who recommended this approach. As I mentioned, I've sent a reference to your clerks and researchers so they can share with you one of the British documents that says it was a House of Lords committee that recommended they do this kind of thing. Basically it's trying to create a new convention saying this is how we're going to operate in the future, this is how we see things as operating. Enforcement is always difficult with these things. That is, it's a difficult question. Basically you're setting down a principle and you expect people to follow it.
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