Constitution of the United States ... with the Amendments Thereto, to which are Added Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice ... the Joint Rules in Force at the Close of the 43rd. Congress and a Digest Thereof ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1879 - 395 sider |
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Constitution of the U.S. ...: With the Amendments Thereto, to which are ... Henry Harrison Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
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Side 28 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Side 160 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the House shall, if appealed to, decide on the case, but without debate: if there be no appeal, the decision of the Chair shall be submitted to.
Side 26 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in- the General Government of the Union...
Side 25 - That it is the opinion of this convention, that as soon as the conventions of nine states shall have ratified this constitution, the United States in congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same...
Side 281 - The previous question shall be in this form, " Shall the main question be now put ?!> It shall only be admitted when demanded by a majority of the members present, and...
Side 139 - 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 the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Side 198 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers...
Side 316 - He shall preserve order and decorum ; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose ; and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House by any two members — April 7, 1789 ; on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the House.
Side 157 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Side 316 - He shall take the chair every day precisely at the hour to which the House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall immediately call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the Journal of the preceding day to be read.