Handbook of Parliamentary Law: A Complete Syllabus of Rules of Order, with Explanatory Notes, Directions for the Study of Parliamentary Law, Review Questions, and Usable Graphic and Diagrammatic Classifications of MotionsThis work is a complete manual of parliamentary law and practice. It aims to provide in readily accessible form and understandable terms the rules of order by which popular assemblies are governed. It is at once and in the strictest sense a handbook for both the inexperienced learner and the experienced practitioner in parliamentary bodies. The following points distinguish it from other works of its kind: 1. It is systematic and concise in its presentation of rules and principles, each standing out as a distinct sentence on the page; and forms, rules, effects, etc., are clearly distinguished by a suitable arrangement of type. 2. The first part of the book provides a carefully outlined syllabus of parliamentary law freed from any needless verbiage of explanation. 3. The second part furnishes abundant explanatory notes, giving reasons and illustrations in parliamentary practice for the less experienced and the inexperienced parliamentarian. 4. The third part of the book gives specific directions for successfully conducting a club or class for the study and practice of parliamentary law, while the fourth part adds a hundred review questions as an aid to mastery. 5. The book supplies model forms of expression suitable to be employed in all parliamentary practice. 6. A unique and simple graphic classification of motions is furnished such as will in itself answer on a single page over four hundred parliamentary questions. There is also given a luminous single-page diagram of parliamentary motions. 7. A system of thumb indexing makes the information of the book immediately accessible, -a matter of great moment to one presiding over an impatient assembly. The book is the outgrowth of over ten years of experience in teaching parliamentary law to students in normal schools and colleges, and is designed as a textbook for use wherever the subject is studied or practiced. |
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Page 95 - 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 52 - THE GREAT PURPOSE OF ALL RULES AND FORMS, IS TO SUBSERVE THE WILL OF THE ASSEMBLY RATHER THAN TO RESTRAIN IT; TO FACILITATE, AND NOT TO OBSTRUCT, THE EXPRESSION OF THEIK DELIBERATE SENSE.
Page 47 - If no limit is prescribed, any member may speak as often as he can get the floor, and as long each time as is allowed in debate in the assembly, provided no one wishes the floor who has not spoken on that particular question. Debate having been closed at a particular time by order of the assembly, it is not competent for the committee, even by unanimous consent, to extend the time. The committee cannot refer the subject to another committee.
Page 71 - Principal motions are characterized by the fact that they are never in order when there is any other question or business before the assembly. Subsidiary motions are applied to other motions for the purpose of modifying, or disposing of them, or of cutting off debate on them. It is important to note that these subsidiary motions are so arranged in the table that each one takes precedence over those preceding it in the list and yields to those following it. Incidental motions are motions that arise...
Page 58 - Reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting, followed by correction (if any) and approval 3. Reports of standing committees 4. Reports of special committees 5. Unfinished business 6.
Page 25 - To lay on the table: (1) to postpone a subject so that it may be taken up at another time during the same session; (2) to stop debate and suppress a question for the session, providing a majority cannot be secured to take the question again from the table. 8. To suspend a rule — to make temporarily possible an action contrary to the standing rules or rules of order of an organization. 9. To withdraw a motion — to expedite business in case of a changed opinion by the maker of the motion. 10. Question...
Page 36 - Senate a motion to reconsider must be made on the same day on which the vote to be reconsidered was taken or within the next three days of the actual session of the Senate thereafter, rule XX.
Page 48 - I move that the committee rise and report progress, and ask leave to sit again Monday evening, following the Third Reading, at which time a vote on this question will be taken.
Page 72 - Every motion we have listed has a definite purpose and is designed to meet a rather specific situation. To facilitate the use of the chart we have submitted, therefore, we are listing these same motions below with their object or objects.
Page 52 - ... perfect system, it is well adapted to the needs of ordinary deliberative assemblies." "Parliamentary law may vary in the details of its rules, but underlying it all there are found four invariable foundation principles or corner stones, upon which every portion of the superstructure rests. They are (1) justice and courtesy to all, (2) one thing at a time, (3) the rule of the majority, (4) the rights of the minority.