Constitution of the United States of America, with the Amendments Thereto: to which are Added Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, the Standing Rules, Joint Rules, and Orders for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives of the United States, and Barclay's DigestU.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - Parliamentary practice |
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... Legislature . * In May , 1785 , a committee of Congress made a report recommending an alter- ation in the Articles of Confederation , but no action was taken on it , and it was left to the State Legislatures to proceed in the matter ...
... Legislature . * In May , 1785 , a committee of Congress made a report recommending an alter- ation in the Articles of Confederation , but no action was taken on it , and it was left to the State Legislatures to proceed in the matter ...
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... Legislatures of every State , would effectually provide for the same . Congress , on the 21st of February , 1787 , adopted a resolution in favor of a convention , and the Legislatures of those States which had not already done so ( with ...
... Legislatures of every State , would effectually provide for the same . Congress , on the 21st of February , 1787 , adopted a resolution in favor of a convention , and the Legislatures of those States which had not already done so ( with ...
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... Legislature thereof , for six Years ; and each Senator shall have one Vote . 2 Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election , they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes . The Seats of ...
... Legislature thereof , for six Years ; and each Senator shall have one Vote . 2 Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election , they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes . The Seats of ...
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... Legislature of any State , the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature , which shall then fill such Vacancies . 3 No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of ...
... Legislature of any State , the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature , which shall then fill such Vacancies . 3 No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of ...
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... Legislature thereof may direct , a Number of Electors , equal to the whole Num- ber of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be en- titled in the Congress : but no Senator or Representative , or Person holding an Office of ...
... Legislature thereof may direct , a Number of Electors , equal to the whole Num- ber of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be en- titled in the Congress : but no Senator or Representative , or Person holding an Office of ...
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28 Stat Admitted under act appointed appropriation bills Article Calendar chairman Clerk commit concur conference report considered in Committee Constitution debate decided decision demand duties election enacting clause engrossed Globe go into Committee Grey Hakew Hats held impeachment insert Jefferson's Manual Jour Journal jurisdiction matter ment mittee motion to adjourn motion to amend motion to go motion to recommit motion to reconsider motion to strike motion to suspend order to move papers parliamentary pending person point of order precedence presents a question President previous question private bill privileged motion proceedings proposed proposition providing public bill question of consideration question of privilege questions of order quorum recommit with instructions Record referred Revised Statutes roll call Rule XI Rule XXII Scob Senate amendment Sergeant-at-Arms session Speaker special order suspend the rules tion unanimous consent United vote Wall Whole House withdrawn yeas and nays
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Page 11 - Duties in another. 7 No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. 8 No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince,...
Page 15 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Page 94 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 8 - To establish post offices and post roads; 8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; 10.
Page 6 - Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 15 - No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president: neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 10 - Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings.
Page 235 - A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried, shall be considered equivalent to its rejection.
Page 22 - ... more of the several States of the Union, have ratified the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, duly proposed by twothirds of each House of the Thirty-ninth Congress: Therefore Resolved, That said fourteenth article is hereby declared to be a part of the Constitution of the United States, and it shall be duly promulgated as such by the Secretary of State.
Page 15 - Choice of the President, the person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.