Lex Parliamentaria Americana; Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...which is newly moved, or only an equivalent motion.3 1263. No order can be made in reference to a subject, which is not regularly before the assembly;4 and, therefore, where a member read a series of resolutions, and then moved that they should be printed, Mr. Speaker Addington said, that, as the resolutions had not been regularly moved, no order could take place with respect to them.5 1264. The inconvenience, sometimes resulting from the practical application of the rule above stated, has led to the introduction into the parliamentary practice of this country of the motion for reconsideration; which, while it recognizes and upholds the rule in its ancient strictness, yet allows a deliberative assembly, for sufficient reasons, to relieve itself from the embarrassment, which might attend the strict enforcement of the rule in a particular case; so that 1 May, 233. ceedings of the house of commons is con'May, 234. tained in the ninth volume of the journals of Hulsell, II. 116. As to equivalent ques-that body, and inserted in the note to partitions, see post, 1830. graph 1257. Neither does it depend for its J. of H. 17th Cong. 1st Sess. 290 j Reg. of existence on the rules and orders of any asDeb. HI. 1142; Cong. Globe, III. 261; Same, sembly in which it prevails, though it is comVIII. 161; Same, XVHI. 799, 867; Same, monly regulated by them. It appears to have XXI. 1431. been in frequent use in the congress of the 6 Pari. Keg. XLIV. 108,113. confederation, though it is not mentioned in This motion, though parliamentary in its the rules and orders of that body; and it was oharacter, is entirely American in its origin, in common use in the house of representatives and one of the few motions known only in of the United States before any rules on that our legislat...