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Thomas Jefferson
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice

for the Use of the Senate of the United States.
SECOND EDITION. WITH THE LAST ADDITIONS OF THE AUTHOR GEORGE TOWN:
PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH MILLIGAN; AND BY WILLIAM COOPER,
WASHINGTON.
1812.

Editor's Notes

Preface

SEC. I: The Importance of Adhering to Rules.

SEC. II: Legislature

SEC. III: Privilege

SEC. IV: Elections.

SEC. V: Qualifications

SEC. VI: Quorum

SEC. VII: Call of the House

SEC. XII: Committee of the Whole

SEC. XIII: Examination of Witnesses

SEC. XIV: Arrangement of Business

SEC. XV: Order

SEC. XVI: Order Respecting Papers

SEC. XVII: Order in Debate

SEC. XVIII: Orders of the House

SEC. XIX: Petitions

SEC. XX: Motions

SEC. XXI: Resolutions

SEC. XXII: Bills

SEC. XXIII: Bills, Leave to Bring In

SEC. XXIV: Bills, First Reading

SEC. XXV: Bills, Second Reading

SEC. XXVI: Bills, Commitment

SEC. XXVII: Report of Committee

SEC. XXVIII: Bill, Recommitment

SEC. XXIX: Bill, Report Taken Up

SEC. XXX: Quasi-Committee

SEC. XXXI: Bill, Second Reading in the House

SEC. XXXII: Reading Papers

SEC. XXXIII: Privileged Questions

SEC. XXXIV: The Previous Questions

SEC. XXXV: Amendments

SEC. XXXVI: Division of the Question

SEC. XXXVII: Co-Existing Questions

SEC. XXXVIII: Equivalent Questions

SEC. XXXIX: The Questions

SEC. XL: Bills, Third Reading

SEC. XLI: Division of the House

SEC. XLII: Title

SEC. XLIII: Reconsiderations

SEC. XLIV: Bills Sent to the Other House

SEC. XLV: Amendments between the Houses

SEC. XLVI: Conferences

SEC. LIII: Impeachment

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