The American Debater :bbeing a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public DebateIvison & Phinney, 1855 - 323 páginas |
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... chair of the presiding officer , the order of proceeding , being fully understood , is made subservient to its legitimate purposes , the dignity of the assembly is duly maintained , and the interests at stake in the discussion carefully ...
... chair of the presiding officer , the order of proceeding , being fully understood , is made subservient to its legitimate purposes , the dignity of the assembly is duly maintained , and the interests at stake in the discussion carefully ...
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... chair , first freely discussed , and then decided affirmatively , or negatively by the meeting . 9. What is meant by the phrase " on motion , duly seconded " ? Whenever a member wishes to get the sense , or judgment of the body on any ...
... chair , first freely discussed , and then decided affirmatively , or negatively by the meeting . 9. What is meant by the phrase " on motion , duly seconded " ? Whenever a member wishes to get the sense , or judgment of the body on any ...
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... view , and be signed by the parties most prominent in originating it . † If , however , the question be negatived , another nomination is , person so elected immediately takes the chair , and pro- 50 RULES OF ORDER .
... view , and be signed by the parties most prominent in originating it . † If , however , the question be negatived , another nomination is , person so elected immediately takes the chair , and pro- 50 RULES OF ORDER .
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James Napoleon McElligott. person so elected immediately takes the chair , and pro- ceeds to complete the organization , by requesting the members to nominate a suitable person for the office of Secretary , as also persons for such other ...
James Napoleon McElligott. person so elected immediately takes the chair , and pro- ceeds to complete the organization , by requesting the members to nominate a suitable person for the office of Secretary , as also persons for such other ...
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... chair- man pro . tem . till the permanent Chairman is appointed . It is his duty , accordingly , to call a meeting of his colleagues at the earliest convenience , and so open the way to business . 51. Is a committee at liberty to fix ...
... chair- man pro . tem . till the permanent Chairman is appointed . It is his duty , accordingly , to call a meeting of his colleagues at the earliest convenience , and so open the way to business . 51. Is a committee at liberty to fix ...
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Página 76 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged: and nc motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely.
Página 289 - 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, 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...
Página 291 - 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...
Página 291 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which we now...
Página 289 - 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...
Página 171 - Glorious, indeed, is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
Página 289 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the. recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Página 99 - Hats., 132, 133,~\ And this is considered to be not in the form of an amendment to the question, but as alternative or successive originals. In all cases of time or number, we must consider whether the larger comprehends the lesser, as in a question to what day a postponement shall be, the number of a committee, amount of a fine, term of an imprisonment, term of irredeemability of a loan, or the terminus in quern in any other case; then the question must begin a maximo.
Página 99 - ... on the limitation of the rate of interest, on what day the session shall be closed by adjournment, on what day the next shall commence, when an act shall commence or the terminus a quo in any other case where the question must begin a minima.
Página 250 - 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; on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the House.