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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... papers 145 146 33 . Privileged questions - 147 34 . Previous question 155 35 . Amendments 157 36 . Division of question 161 37 . Co - existing questions 162 38 . Equivalent questions 39 . The question 163 164 40 . Third reading 165 41 ...
... papers 145 146 33 . Privileged questions - 147 34 . Previous question 155 35 . Amendments 157 36 . Division of question 161 37 . Co - existing questions 162 38 . Equivalent questions 39 . The question 163 164 40 . Third reading 165 41 ...
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... previous question can be put in a committee ; nor can this committee adjourn as others may ; but if their business is unfinished , they rise , on a question , the House is resumed , and the chairman . reports that the Committee of the ...
... previous question can be put in a committee ; nor can this committee adjourn as others may ; but if their business is unfinished , they rise , on a question , the House is resumed , and the chairman . reports that the Committee of the ...
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... question but on amendments . When through the whole , they consider the quasi - committee as risen , the House ... previous question can be taken ; the only means to avoid an improper discussion is to move that the committee rise ; and ...
... question but on amendments . When through the whole , they consider the quasi - committee as risen , the House ... previous question can be taken ; the only means to avoid an improper discussion is to move that the committee rise ; and ...
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... previous question . 5. A committee can- not punish a breach of order in the House or in the gallery . 9 Grey , 113. It can only rise and report it to the House , who may proceed to punish . The first and second of these peculiarities ...
... previous question . 5. A committee can- not punish a breach of order in the House or in the gallery . 9 Grey , 113. It can only rise and report it to the House , who may proceed to punish . The first and second of these peculiarities ...
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... question which is the subject of an order is made a privileged one , pro hac vice . The order is a repeal of the ... previous question . 2. To postpone indefinitely . 3. To adjourn a question to a definite day . 4. To lie on the table ...
... question which is the subject of an order is made a privileged one , pro hac vice . The order is a repeal of the ... previous question . 2. To postpone indefinitely . 3. To adjourn a question to a definite day . 4. To lie on the table ...
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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.