Usage and tradition had consecrated the two-thirds rule.
The Charleston Convention was reactionary and exclusive; it followed the two-thirds rule.
But the friends of Douglas fatally obstructed his program by consenting to the two-thirds rule, so worded as to required that proportion of a full convention to secure a nomination.
By consenting to the adoption of the two-thirds rule, he, with them, would prove unfaithful to their trust and their honor.
He then went on to expose the tricks of a caucus within a caucus--a sub and secret caucus--plotting and combining to betray their instructions through the instrumentality and under the cover of the two-thirds rule.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirds rule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
