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

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Luther Stearns Cushing INTRODUCTION	9
CHAPTER I.—Of Certain Preliminary Matters		20
Sect. I.	Quorum	20
Sect. II.	Rules and Orders	22
Sect. III.	Time of Meeting	23
Sect. IV.	Principle of Decision	24
CHAPTER II.—Of the Officers		25
Sect. I.	The Presiding Officer	26
Sect. II.	The Recording Officer	28
CHAPTER III.—Of the Rights and Duties of Members		30
CHAPTER IV.—Of the Introduction of Business		34
CHAPTER V.—Of Motions in General		42
CHAPTER VI.—Of Motions To Suppress		45
Sect. I.	Previous Question	46
Sect. II.	Indefinite Postponement	50
CHAPTER VII.—Of Motions To Postpone		51
CHAPTER VIII.—Of Motions To Commit		52
CHAPTER IX.—Of Motions to Amend		54
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 Rules relating to Amendments	62
Sect. VI.	Amendments, by striking out	65
Sect. VII.	Amendments, by inserting	69
Sect. VIII.	Amendments, by striking out and inserting	71
Sect. IX.	Amendments, changing the nature of a question	74
[p8] CHAPTER X.—Of the Order and Succession of Questions		79
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
	Withdrawal of a Motion	91
	Suspension of a Rule	91
	Amendment of Amendments	92
Sect. III.	Subsidiary Questions	93
	Lie on the Table	95
	Previous Question	96
	Postponement	97
	Commitment	98
	Amendment	99
CHAPTER XI.—Of the Order of Proceeding		101
CHAPTER XII.—Of Order in Debate		108
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 Decorum in Debate	119
Sect. VI.	As to Disorderly Words	120
CHAPTER XIII.—Of the Question		124
CHAPTER XIV.—Of Reconsideration		135
CHAPTER XV.—Of Committees		138
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
CONCLUDING REMARKS		161
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES		165

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