Constitution of the United States: Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - 690 pages |
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... Propositions for any charge on the people are especially to be first made in a Committee of the Whole . 3 Hats . , 127. The sense of the whole is better taken in committee , because in all committees every one speaks as often as he ...
... Propositions for any charge on the people are especially to be first made in a Committee of the Whole . 3 Hats . , 127. The sense of the whole is better taken in committee , because in all committees every one speaks as often as he ...
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... proposition for the body of the resolution ; but the House is not in possession of it ; it remains in his breast , and may be with- held . The rules of the House can only operate on what is before them . The practice of the Senate , too ...
... proposition for the body of the resolution ; but the House is not in possession of it ; it remains in his breast , and may be with- held . The rules of the House can only operate on what is before them . The practice of the Senate , too ...
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... proposition for commitment be made , then the proceedings in the Senate of the United States and in Parliament are totally different . The former shall be first stated . [ In the Senate . ] Rule XV - Clauses 1 , 2 . 1. All bills and ...
... proposition for commitment be made , then the proceedings in the Senate of the United States and in Parliament are totally different . The former shall be first stated . [ In the Senate . ] Rule XV - Clauses 1 , 2 . 1. All bills and ...
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... proposition for commitment be made , the Speaker reads it by paragraphs , pausing between each , but putting no question but on amendments proposed ; and when through the whole , he puts the question whether it shall be read a third ...
... proposition for commitment be made , the Speaker reads it by paragraphs , pausing between each , but putting no question but on amendments proposed ; and when through the whole , he puts the question whether it shall be read a third ...
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... proposition which can be made to them . Such are , 1. The previous question . 2. To postpone indefinitely . 3. To adjourn a question to a definite day . 4. To lie on the table . 5. To commit . 6. To amend . The proper occasion for each ...
... proposition which can be made to them . Such are , 1. The previous question . 2. To postpone indefinitely . 3. To adjourn a question to a definite day . 4. To lie on the table . 5. To commit . 6. To amend . The proper occasion for each ...
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Popular passages
Page 2 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the 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 445 - ... that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter : so help me God.
Page 7 - ... §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 or foreign...
Page 564 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House...
Page 257 - Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution; that after such publication the electors should be appointed, and the senators and representatives elected...
Page 257 - States in Congress assembled; that the senators and representatives should convene at the time and place assigned; that the senators should appoint a president of the Senate, for the sole purpose of receiving, opening, and counting the votes for President; and that after he shall be chosen, the Congress, together with the President, should without delay proceed to execute this Constitution.
Page 372 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 11 - ... shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the 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] 'The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.