I still think about this design downgrade from time to time. The former flag was so cool and wtf is our current one because it looks like is has no soul to it:
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![Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
In Article I, Section 4, Clause 2, the Framers stipulated when Congress would assemble and begin conducting its official business.1 In Article I, Section 5, Clause 4, the Framers gave the two chambers of Congress—the House of Representatives and the Senate—authority to adjourn.2 The House and Senate can use this power independent of each other subject to the requirement that if one Chamber wants to adjourn for more than three days, it requires the other’s consent.3 If the two houses cannot agree to adjourn, the Constitution gives the President power to adjourn them.4 Article II, Section 3, provides in part in Case of Disagreement between [the House of Representatives and the Senate], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, [the President] may adjourn them, to such Time as he shall think proper.5
In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Justice Joseph Story reasoned that by empowering Congress to determine when to adjourn, the Framers prevented the President from using the royal governor tactic of squelching dissent by adjourning colonial legislatures.6 Consequently, Article I, Section 5, Clause 4 checked the President’s power over Congress.7 Likewise, by requiring the two chambers of Congress to agree to any adjournment longer than three days, Clause 4 prevented either house from frustrating the legislative process by adjourning. In addition, by authorizing the President to resolve disagreements between the two chambers on when they would adjourn, the Framers created an incentive for the chambers to cooperate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6tpcmjf75yfv3tm6dnuwa35a/bafkreiffdpiovc5js4eusip3edxpd5tx7tkza6lu7hnut4cchfo5ihbyce)
