Legislative Procedure: Parliamentary Practices and the Course of Business in the Framing of StatutesHoughton Mifflin, 1922 - 628 páginas |
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... nature . Unless codes of conduct have been agreed upon before the clouds appear on the horizon , every gust will threaten to wreck the ship . The nature of these codes is the minor matter . It is but repeating Hatsell and Jefferson and ...
... nature . Unless codes of conduct have been agreed upon before the clouds appear on the horizon , every gust will threaten to wreck the ship . The nature of these codes is the minor matter . It is but repeating Hatsell and Jefferson and ...
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... natural and hardly worth reflection which nevertheless required ages to become acknowledged , and for want of which civil liberty , or at least the expedition of the common business , could not prosper . All usages and laws which relate ...
... natural and hardly worth reflection which nevertheless required ages to become acknowledged , and for want of which civil liberty , or at least the expedition of the common business , could not prosper . All usages and laws which relate ...
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... her Constitution - " No legislative day shall be shorter than the natural day . " Yet cast - iron restrictions of this sort sometimes make serious trouble . In the Massachusetts Convention of 1917 the last 10 LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE.
... her Constitution - " No legislative day shall be shorter than the natural day . " Yet cast - iron restrictions of this sort sometimes make serious trouble . In the Massachusetts Convention of 1917 the last 10 LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE.
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... natural , but it was unfortunate . The more the restraints , the more ingenious the expedients for evading them . Far wiser would it have been to build up the character of the Legislature than to put it in a strait - jacket . With the ...
... natural , but it was unfortunate . The more the restraints , the more ingenious the expedients for evading them . Far wiser would it have been to build up the character of the Legislature than to put it in a strait - jacket . With the ...
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... natural rights have es men . " Nevertheless the sixteen a quorum of members ; and sixty & size , in many year teng one fifth to one tent the others chose to be z by making a quorum e was stipulated for eac New Hampshire I particulars ...
... natural rights have es men . " Nevertheless the sixteen a quorum of members ; and sixty & size , in many year teng one fifth to one tent the others chose to be z by making a quorum e was stipulated for eac New Hampshire I particulars ...
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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...