Legislative Procedure: Parliamentary Practices and the Course of Business in the Framing of StatutesHoughton Mifflin, 1922 - 628 páginas |
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... body , lacks the sense of proportion . It is a sense not found in group action . Only in individual leadership can we hope for judicious ap portionment of the available time . As things go now , hours are stines spent over outlays of a ...
... body , lacks the sense of proportion . It is a sense not found in group action . Only in individual leadership can we hope for judicious ap portionment of the available time . As things go now , hours are stines spent over outlays of a ...
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... body at the be- ginning of a session that could not at any time be disregarded by a majority without invalidating any resultant law . Barring con- stitutional obstacles , no court would ever question a statute be- cause such a rule had ...
... body at the be- ginning of a session that could not at any time be disregarded by a majority without invalidating any resultant law . Barring con- stitutional obstacles , no court would ever question a statute be- cause such a rule had ...
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... body . Permit me , therefore , with the sincerity of a parting friend , earnestly to recommend to your attention a steady adherence to these venerable usages . ' 11 2 Observe the same keynote in sentences from a speech deliv- ered by a ...
... body . Permit me , therefore , with the sincerity of a parting friend , earnestly to recommend to your attention a steady adherence to these venerable usages . ' 11 2 Observe the same keynote in sentences from a speech deliv- ered by a ...
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... body against the arbitrary will of a majority , which is reached by agreement made outside of the Chamber . " Thomas Jefferson took the same view . Referring to Hatsell in the introductory words of his " Manual , " he recalled that Mr ...
... body against the arbitrary will of a majority , which is reached by agreement made outside of the Chamber . " Thomas Jefferson took the same view . Referring to Hatsell in the introductory words of his " Manual , " he recalled that Mr ...
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... bodies . RULES AND STANDING ORDERS RULES or standing orders as well as constitutional provisions bear the same relation ... body to which they are specifically made applicable . The standing orders of the House of Commons are by custom ...
... bodies . RULES AND STANDING ORDERS RULES or standing orders as well as constitutional provisions bear the same relation ... body to which they are specifically made applicable . The standing orders of the House of Commons are by custom ...
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66th Congress action adjournment adopted amendment American appointed argument Assembly attendance bers bicameral bill branch called caucus Chair chairman Chamber chance Clerk Committee on Rules Congress Constitution Convention course Court custom debate declared discussion duty elected England filibuster floor Government Governor House of Commons House of Lords House of Representatives important John Quincy Adams Journal judgment lawmaking leaders legislative body Legislature less Lords majority Massachusetts Massachusetts General Court matter measure ment minority mittee motion North Carolina opinion Parliament parliamentary law party passed Pennsylvania petitions political practice present presiding officer previous question printed private bills procedure proceedings proposed provision purpose quorum reason record referred resolution result roll-call Samuel Bryan Senate session Sir Thomas Smith sitting speak Speaker speech standing committees statute third reading tion tive Virginia vote whole Yeas and Nays
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Página 432 - If the member be called to order for words spoken, the exceptionable words shall immediately be taken down in writing, that the president may be better enabled to judge of the matter.
Página 544 - No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or which shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act.
Página 312 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 538 - To avoid Improper Influences which may result from Intermixing In one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed In the title.
Página 520 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Página 316 - The freedom of deliberation, speech and debate, in either house of the legislature, is so essential to the rights of the people, that it cannot be the foundation of any accusation or prosecution, action or complaint, in any other court or place whatsoever.
Página 313 - Parliament: and that in the handling and proceeding of those businesses every member of the House of Parliament hath and of right ought to have freedom of speech to propound, treat, reason and bring to conclusion the same...
Página 359 - A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill proposed or pending before the general assembly, shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
Página 333 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 5 - Mr. Onslow, the ablest among the speakers of the house of commons, used to say "It was a maxim he had often heard when he was a young man, from old and experienced members, that nothing tended more to throw power into the hands of the administration, and those who acted with the majority of the house of commons...