Liberia, April 18 -- Liberia's 1986 Constitution gives each chamber of the Legislature meaningful authority over its own internal affairs. Article 38 plainly says that each House may adopt its own rules of procedure, enforce order, and, by a two-thirds vote of its full membership, expel a member for cause. But the same article also contains the limiting principle too many political actors conveniently ignore: all legislative rules "shall conform to the requirements of due process of law laid down in this Constitution." In other words, the House's disciplinary power is real, but it is not absolute. It exists inside the Constitution, not above it. Article 2 reinforces that hierarchy by declaring the Constitution supreme and rendering incons...