American Legislatures and Legislative MethodsCentury Company, 1907 - 337 páginas |
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Página 4 - That the legislature of each State which shall be chosen next preceding the expiration of the time for which any senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof, proceed to elect a senator in Congress...
Página 49 - The requests and demands which by the score have for nearly three months been presented to the different Departments of the Government, whatever may be their form, have but one complexion. They assume the right of the Senate to sit In judgment upon the exercise of my exclusive discretion and executive function, for which I am solely responslble to the people from whom I have so lately received the sacred trust of office.
Página 35 - The Constitution has prescribed no method of making this determination, and it is therefore within the competency of the house to prescribe any method which shall be reasonably certain to ascertain the fact. It may prescribe answer to rollcall as the only method of determination ; or require the passage of members between tellers, and their count as the sole test ; or the count of the Speaker or the clerk, and an announcement from the desk of the names of those who are present. Any one of these methods,...
Página 257 - But where persons act as counsel or agents, or in any representative capacity, it is due to those before whom they plead or solicit, that they should honestly appear in their true characters, so that their arguments and representations, openly and candidly made, may receive their just weight and consideration.
Página 16 - On the demand of any Member, or at the suggestion of the Speaker, the names of Members sufficient to make a quorum in the Hall of the House Annotated Rules. who do not vote shall be noted by the Clerk and recorded in the Journal, and reported to the Speaker with the names of the Members voting, and be counted and announced in determining the presence of a quorum to do business.
Página 32 - The following-named committees shall have leave to report at any time- on the matters herein stated, viz. : The Committee on Rules, on rules, joint rules, and order of business ; the Committee on Elections, on the right of a member to his seat ; the Committee on Ways and Means, on bills raising revenue ; the committees having jurisdiction of appropriations...
Página 107 - No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to Its final passage, unless the Governor, or the acting Governor, shall have certified to the necessity of its immediate passage, under his hand and the seal of the State...
Página 257 - All persons whose interests may in any way be affected by any public or private act of the legislature have an undoubted right to urge their claims and arguments, either in person or by counsel professing to act for them, before legislative committees, as well as in courts of justice.
Página 155 - The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the Commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and for public schools; all other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.
Página 294 - Parliament, which, although they may he easy to understand, people continually try to misunderstand, and in which therefore it is not enough to attain to a degree of precision which a person reading in good faith can understand; but is is necessary to attain if possible to a degree of precision which a person reading in bad faith cannot misunderstand.