 | 1826 - 220 pages
...a negative on important modifications, and suppress, instead of subserving, the legislative will. 1 Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 644 pages
...denotes ait alteration made in the original draught of a bill, whilst it is passing through the houses. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 496 pages
...denotes an alteration made in the original draught of u bill, whilst it is passing through the houses. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a wuy of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | 1837 - 240 pages
...usurp a negative on important modifications, and suppress, instead of subserving, the legislative will. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1837 - 202 pages
...usurp a negative on important modifications, and suppress instead of subserving the legislative will. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | 1841 - 956 pages
...denotes an alteration made in the original draught of a bill, whilst it is passing through tlie houses. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 560 pages
...usurp a negative on important modifications, and suppress, instead of subserving, the legislative will. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition, and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition by making it bear a sense different from... | |
 | William Latta McCalla - 1841 - 202 pages
...admitted under colour of amendment, as a substitute for the motion or proposition under debate. Yet amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition, as from an affirmative to a negative, or the converse. 50. Striking Out and Amending.... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 pages
...denotes an alteration made in the original draught of a bill, whilst it is passing through trie houses. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 pages
...sums or times are proposed, the question shall first be put on the largest sum and longest time. 12. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of thi> proposition. A new proposition may be engrafted, by way of amendment on the record, " Resolved,"... | |
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Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different from what it was intended by the movers, so that they vote against it themselves. 
