Manual Of Parliamentary Law And Procedure For The Legal Conduct Of Business In All Deliberative Bodies

Author : Patrick Hues Mell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230221434
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book A Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Rules for Conducting Business in Deliberative Assemblies written by Patrick Hues Mell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... A MANUAL OF PAKLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. CHAPTER I. DELIBERATIVE BODIES. 1. A Deliberative Body is an organized assembly of persons convened to consider and act upon questions that may be legitimately presented to them according to the principles and forms sanctioned by immemorial usage. In all true deliberative bodies, the members are on an equality, and the officers are but the instruments and agents of the assembly. SECT. I.--DIFFERENT KINDS OF DELIBERATIVE BODIES. 2. Some deliberative bodies are permanently established, and others are occasional. 3. Permanently established bodies are such as are required by constitutional provision to meet at stated times, with no provision for their final dissolution. These are subdivided into two classes. I. In the first class are found those bodies whose members have no constituencies, but maintain the relation at will, or for life; or such elective bodies as always have a sufficient number holding position to qualify them for the transaction of business. Of the (7) former, are local churches in their business capacity, and the House of Peers in England, whose members hold the relation in the main by hereditary right; of the latter is the Senate of the United States, where the expiration of terms is so arranged as always to leave at least two-thirds of the members in position. These may be called, par eminence, permanent bodies. 11. Of the second class are such bodies as in form continue perpetually, but whose members retire from position either all together or in such numbers as to leave those who hold over so reduced as not to form a quorum. To this class belong Legislative assemblies, Boards of Managers, and religious constituent organizations. 4. Occasional deliberative bodies are such convocations...