A Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Composed Originally for the Use of the Senate of the United States: With References to the Practice and Rules of ... Practice of the Present Time; To Which Are - Couverture souple

Jefferson, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1240095279 ISBN 13 : 9781240095278

Editeur : Gale Ecco, Making of Modern Law, 2010

Synopsis

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm20778098New York: Clark & Maynard, 1873, c1840. vi, 13-196 p.; 20 cm.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Constitution of the United States, establishing-a legislature Jbr the Union under certain forms, authorizes each branch of it to determine the rules of its own proceedings. The Senate have accordingly formed some rules for its own government: but those going only to few cases, they have referred to the decision of theii President, without debate and without appeal, all questions of order arising either under their own rules, or, where they have provided none. This places under the discretion of the President a very extensive field of decision, and one which, irregularly exercised, would have a powerful effect on the proceedings and determinations of the House. The President must feel, weightily and seriously, this confidence in his discretion ;and the necessity of recurring, for its government, to some known system of rules, that he may neither leave himself free to indulge caprice or passion, nor open to the imputation of them. But to what system of rules is he to recur, as supplementary to those of the Senate T othis there can be but one answer :to the systems of regulations adopted for the government of some one of the parliamentary bodies within these States, or of that which has served as a prototype to most of them. This last is the model which we have studied ;while we are little acquainted with the modifications of it in our several States. It is deposited, too, in publications possessed by many, and open to all. I ts rules are probably as wisely constructed for governing the debates of a considerative body, and obtaining its true sense, as any which can become known to us; and the acquiescence of the Senate hitherto under the references to them, has given them the sanction of their approbation.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale Ecco, Making of Modern Law
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1240095279
• ISBN 13: 9781240095278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible