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Article XI.—All questions coming before the Club shall be decided by a majority of the members voting, except such as are otherwise provided for in this constitution.
[Note: It will be observed (see Article XIII.) that the power of the majority is limited to matters relating to practical details of the Club's business management, but does not prevailing cases touching fundamental changes or principles. In the latter a unanimous vote of the Club is required. In the former, it was thought best, in order to save time and secure an expeditious dispatch of routine business, to allow the deciding voice to the majority of the members voting. Nobody will confound this with the system of majority rule obtaining under democratic forms of government. The difference between an agreement on the part of certain people to submit certain matters to the decision of a majority of members, and a majority of people in a given locality investing themselves arbitrarily with authority over the rest of the residents and governing them by force or threats of physical violence, is too plain and striking not to be perceived and admitted.]
Article XII.—Any member may secede from the Club at any time by sending a letter of resignation to the Secretary-Treasurer, and any member voting with the minority on any question coming before the Club shall, if he requests, have his individual vote placed upon the records by the Secretary-Treasurer.
Article XIII.—Any proposed amendment of this constitution shall not be voted upon until the regular meeting following the meeting at which it is offered, and in the meantime the Secretary-Treasurer shall notify each member by letter that such an amendment is to be voted upon; and no amendment shall be adopted except by a unanimous vote of the members voting. No amendment shall be offered twice within a period of three months.
