A Manual of Parliamentary PracticeCosimo, Inc., 2007 M04 1 - 164 páginas It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that this slender, concise, enormously influential volume was the work of a lifetime for American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. From his student days at William and Mary College through his experience amidst the disarray of the colonial legislatures and the Continental Congress and an exasperating term presiding over the Senate as U.S. vice president, Jefferson studied centuries of parliamentary law and culled the best practices into a notes that he finally organized into this manual.Based on centuries of tradition codified for the first time by Jefferson, this work remains the basis for the rules of order of the U.S. House of Representatives, and offers some surprisingly revealing insight into one of the towering intellects who helped create America and her cultural personality.American politician and political philosopher THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, though he is perhaps even better remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence. |
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Elections | 23 |
Qualifications 6 Quorum | 25 |
Commitment | 31 |
Report of Committee | 57 |
Recommitment | 58 |
Report taken | 59 |
Equivalent questions | 92 |
The Question 40 3d reading | 93 |
Division of the house | 99 |
Call of the house | 103 |
Title 43 Reconsideration | 106 |
Bills sent to the other house | 109 |
Amendments between the houses | 110 |
Conferences | 111 |
Quasi Committee | 60 |
2nd reading in the house | 63 |
Reading papers | 65 |
Privileged questions | 66 |
Previous question | 67 |
Amendments | 70 |
Division of question | 79 |
Coexisting questions | 91 |
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Assent | 120 |
Journals 50 Adjournment | 122 |
Session | 126 |
Treaties | 130 |
Speaker 10 Address 11 Committees 12 Committee of the whole 13 Examination before Committees | 143 |
respecting papers 17 in debate 18 Orders of the house 19 Petitions 20 Motions 21 Resolutions 22 Bills readings 23 leave to bring in 24 1st reading 25... | 144 |
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Página 108 - If, after the vote, the paper on which it is passed has been parted with, there can be no reconsideration : as if a vote has been for the passage of a bill, and the bill has been sent to the other house. But where the paper remains, as on a bill rejected; when, or under what circumstances does it cease to be susceptible of reconsideration? This remains to be settled ; unless a sense that the right of reconsideration is a right to waste the time of the house in repeated agitations of the same question,...
Página 14 - When it is found necessary for the public service to put a member under arrest, or when, on any public inquiry, matter comes out which may lead to affect the person of a member, it is the practice immediately to acquaint the House, that they may know the reasons for such a proceeding, and take such steps as they think proper.
Página 121 - ASSENT The House which has received a bill and passed it may present it for the King's assent, and ought to do it, though they have not by message notified to the other their passage of it. Yet the notifying by message is a form which ought to be observed between the two Houses from motives of respect and good understanding. 2 Hats., 24%.
Página 32 - Reports in possession of the house, which offer grounds for a bill, are to be taken up, that the bill may be ordered in.] [4. Bills or other matters before the house, and unfinished on the preceding day, whether taken up in turn or on special order, are entitled to be resumed and passed on through their present stage.] [5. These matters being...
Página 3 - ... as it is always in the power of the majority, by their numbers, to stop any improper measures proposed on the part of their opponents, the only weapons by which the minority can defend themselves against similar attempts from those in power, are the forms and rules of proceeding which have been adopted as they were found necessary, from time to time, and are become the law of the House...
Página 71 - ... table. It may then be called for at any time. 5. If the proposition will want more amendment and digestion than the formalities of the House will conveniently admit, they refer it to a committee. 6. But if the proposition be well digested, and may need but few and simple amendments, and especially if these be of leading consequence, they then proceed to consider and amend it themselves. The Senate, in their practice, vary from this regular gradation of forms.
Página 109 - But this does not extend to prevent putting the same question in different stages of a bill ; because every stage of a bill submits the whole and every part of it to the opinion of the House, as open for amendment, either by insertion or omission, though the same amendment has been accepted or rejected in a former stage.
Página 103 - But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journals of each House respectively.
Página 10 - Congress a power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises ; to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence, and general welfare of the United States, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States...