Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative AssembliesThompson, Bigelow & Brown, 1869 - 189 страници |
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
adopted affirmative amend by striking appointed assem assembly-room breach of order British parliament called chairman clerk commit committee consent consideration considered course of proceeding debate decided decision deliberative assembly desires disposed division Duke of Aremberg duty house of commons incidental questions interrupted lative legislative assemblies legislative bodies main question manner matter member rises member speaking ment mittee motion and question motion to adjourn motion to amend moved to amend moved to insert moved to strike mover namely necessary negative object opinion paper paragraph parliamentary form particular subject person petition point of order presiding officer previous question principal motion principal question privileged motion proceed proper proper motion proposition purpose ques question of order QUESTIONS OF PRIVILEGE quorum received reference regularly resolution seconded SECT sembly sition sitting special rule stand subsidiary motions supersede suppress taken tion tive usual vote whole
Популярни откъси
Страница 117 - Nevertheless, if a member finds that it is not the inclination of the house to hear him, and that by conversation or any other noise they endeavor to drown his voice, it is his most prudent way to submit to the pleasure of the house and sit down; for it scarcely ever happens that they are guilty of this piece of ill manners without sufficient reason, or inattentive to a member who says anything worth their hearing.
Страница 99 - A settled order of business is, however, necessary for the government of the presiding person, and to restrain individual members from calling up favorite measures, or matters under their special patronage, out of their just turn. It is useful also for directing the discretion of the House, when they are moved to take up a particular matter, to the prejudice of others, having a priority of right to their attention in the general order of business.
Страница 157 - ... the House; which being resolved, the chairman rises, the Speaker resumes the chair, the chairman informs him that the committee have gone through the business referred to them, and that he is ready to make report when the House shall think proper to receive it. If the House have time to receive it, there is usually a cry of "now, now...
Страница 154 - A committee, even of the whole, cannot refer any matter to another committee. 4. In a committee no previous question can be taken. The only means to avoid an improper discussion, is to move that the committee rise : and if it be apprehended that the same discussion will be attempted on returning into committee, the house can discharge them, and proceed itself on the business, keeping down the improper discussion by the previous question.
Страница 63 - Thus, if a proposition consist of AB, and it is proposed to amend by inserting CD, it may be moved to amend the amendment by inserting EF ; but it cannot be moved to amend this amendment, as, for example, by inserting G. The only mode by which this can be reached is to reject the amendment in the form in which it is presented, namely, to insert EF, and to move it in the form in which it is desired to be amended, namely, to insert EG F.
Страница 149 - RECOMMITMENT. After a bill has been committed and reported, it ought not in an ordinary course to be recommitted; but in cases of importance, and for special reasons, it...
Страница 111 - ... against the proceedings of the house, no prior determination of which is to be reflected on by any member, unless he means to conclude with a motion to rescind it.
Страница 106 - Debate in a deliberative assembly must oe distinguished from forensic debate, or that which takes place before a judicial tribunal ; the former being, in theory, at, least, more the expression of individual opinions among the members of the same body ; the latter more a contest for victory, between the disputants, before a distinct and independent body; the former not admitting of replies; the latter regarding reply as the right of one of the parties1.
Страница 73 - When it is moved to amend by striking out certain words and inserting others, the manner of stating the question is first to read the whole passage to be amended as it stands at present, then the words proposed to be struck out, next those to be inserted, and lastly the whole passage as it will be when amended. And the question, if desired, is then to be divided, and put first on striking out.
Страница 98 - ... would be in Parliament. The reason is, that the question for amendment is not suppressed by postponing or adjourning the main question, but remains before the House whenever the main question is resumed; and it might be that the occasion for other urgent business might go by, and be lost by length of debate on the amendment, if the House had it not in their power to postpone the whole subject. Amendment and commitment. The question for committing, though last moved, shall be first put; because,...