It was originally fixed that the Political Committee should meet once every week, but since December XXIV (1935), it holds meetings either weekly or fortnightly. The number of members required to constitute a forum is not fixed, and resolutions have never been put in the form of motions requiring formal vote. Regarding the proposition of a motion, and the discussion of motions proposed _ex-tempore_, the Political Committee has never fixed any rigid regulations; moreover, even if a rule had been established at one time, it has not been followed closely later. Before being put to a decision, a motion is either studied and examined beforehand, or it is not. There is no definite rule as to whether every motion should be so studied or not, but the Committee possesses the power to decide this point _ad hoc_. The entire wording of a motion passed in a meeting is rarely fully read, and is then read in the following session as the minutes of the previous session. _Hence the Chairman and the Secretary-General have a certain liberty in the framing of the wording of resolutions. Judging from above circumstances, important resolutions passed in the Political Committee must actually represent the opinions of the Chairman and a small number of influential members...._ [Italics added in translation.][8] [Footnote 8: Wang Shih-chieh, _Pi-chiao Hsien-fa_, cited above, p. 658 _ff._] Many of these features may reasonably be conjectured to have continued in the Supreme National Defense Council, although the regular meetings--whatever others there may be--seem to be considerably less frequent, occurring presumably about once in five weeks.[9] In the matter of authority, again, some continuity may be supposed between the earlier agency and the later. Wang Shih-chieh continues: