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Topic: Records of debate

Annotation: Requires that records and roll call votes from the legislature be maintained and published from time to time.

Citation and Text from the Constitution:

Article 1, Section 5, Clause 3
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.