Manual of Parliamentary Practice Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies

258. It is usual in all deliberative assemblies, to take the preliminary (sometimes, also, the intermediate) measures, and to prepare matters to be acted upon, in the assembly,...

78. The last case, for the introduction of subsidiary motions, is when the assembly is satisfied with the subject-matter of a proposition, but not with the form of it, or with a...

134. It is a general rule, that, when a proposition is regularly before a deliberative assembly, for its consideration, no other proposition or motion can regularly be made or a...

201. Debate in a deliberative assembly must be distinguished from forensic debate, or that which takes place before a judicial tribunal; the former being, in theory, at least, m...

233. When any proposition is made to a deliberative assembly, it is called a _motion_; when it is stated or propounded to the assembly, for their acceptance or rejection, it is...

Sect. I. Their Nature and Functions 138 Sect. II. Their Appointment 141 Sect. III. Their Organization, etc. 145 Sect. IV. Their Report 150 Sect. V. Committee of the Whole 155

43. The proceedings of a deliberative assembly, in reference to any particular subject, are ordinarily set in motion, in the first instance, by some one of the members either pr...

188. When several subjects are before the assembly; that is, on the table for consideration (for there can be but a single subject _under_ consideration at the same time), and n...

62. When a proposition is moved, which it is supposed may be regarded by the assembly as useless or inexpedient, and which it may therefore be desirous to get rid of, such propo...

16. Before entering upon the subject of the forms and rules of proceeding, in the transaction of business, it will be convenient to consider certain matters of a preliminary nat...

36. The rights and duties of the members of a deliberative assembly, as regards one another, are founded in and derived from the principle of their absolute equality among thems...

26. The usual and necessary officers of a deliberative assembly are those already mentioned, namely, a presiding, and a recording, officer; both of whom are elected or appointed...

59. When a proposition is made to a deliberative assembly, for its adoption, the proposition may be in such a form as to be put to the question, and the assembly may be in such...

250. It is a principle of parliamentary law, upon which many of the rules and proceedings previously stated are founded, that when a question has once been put to a deliberative...

73. The third case for the use of a subsidiary motion, as already stated, occurs, when the subject-matter of a proposition is regarded with favor, but the form in which it is in...

68. If the assembly is willing to entertain consider a question, but not at the time when it is moved, the proper course is either to postpone the subject to another day, or to...

Sect. I. Division of a Question 55 Sect. II. Filling Blanks 57 Sect. III. Addition—Separation—Transposition 60 Sect. IV. Modification, etc., by the Mover 61 Sect. V. General Rul...

Sect. I. Privileged Questions 80 Adjournment 81 Questions of Privilege 82 Orders of the Day 83 Sect. II. Incidental Questions 86 Questions of Order 86 Reading of Papers 88 Withd...

Sect. I. As to the Manner of Speaking 109 Sect. II. As to the Matter in Speaking 112 Sect. III. As to Times of Speaking 115 Sect. IV. As to Stopping Debate 117 Sect. V. As to De...