CUSHING'S MANUAL.
CONTAINING
RULES of PROCEEDING and DEBATE
OF
DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES.
A Complete Guide for Instruction and Reference in all Matters pertaining to the Management of Public Meetings according to Parliamentary Usages.
| BY | REVISED BY |
| LUTHER S. CUSHING. | FRANCES P. SULLIVAN. |
The contents embrace the following subjects:
| Adding of Propositions. |
| Adjournment. |
| Amendment. |
| Apology. |
| Assembly, Deliberative. |
| Assembling. |
| Blanks, filling of. |
| Chairman, preliminary election of. |
| Committees. |
| Committee of the Whole. |
| Commitment. |
| Communications. |
| Consent of the assembly. |
| Contested Elections. |
| Credentials. |
| Debate. |
| Decorum, Breaches of. |
| Disorderly Conduct. |
| Disorderly Words. |
| Division. |
| Elections and Returns. |
| Expulsion. |
| Floor. |
| Forms of Proceeding. |
| Incidental Questions. |
| Introduction of Business. |
| Journal. |
| Judgment of an aggregate body. |
| Lie on the Table. |
| List of members. |
| Main Question. |
| Majority. |
| Members. |
| Membership. |
| Motion. |
| Naming a member. |
| Officers. |
| Order of a deliberative assembly. |
| Order of business. |
| Order, rules of. |
| Order, call to. |
| Orders of the Day. |
| Organization. |
| Papers and Documents. |
| Parliamentary Law. |
| Parliamentary Rules. |
| Petitions. |
| Postponement. |
| Power of assembly to eject strangers. |
| Preamble. |
| Precedence. |
| President. |
| Presiding Officer. |
| Previous Question. |
| Privileged Questions. |
| Proceedings, how set in motion. |
| Punishment. |
| Quarrel between members. |
| Question. |
| Quorum. |
| Reading of Papers. |
| Reception. |
| Recommitment. |
| Reconsideration. |
| Recording Officer. |
| Recurrence of Business. |
| Reports of Committees. |
| Reprimand. |
| Resolution. |
| Returns. |
| Roll. |
| Rules. |
| Secondary Questions. |
| Seconding of motions. |
| Secretary. |
| Separation of propositions. |
| Speaking. |
| Speaking member. |
| Speech, reading of, by member. |
| Subsidiary Questions. |
| Suspension of a rule. |
| Transposition of proposition. |
| Vice-President. |
| Voting. |
| Will of assembly. |
| Withdrawal of motion. |
| Yeas and Nays. |
In addition to the above this volume contains
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
208 Pages. Bound in paper, 25 cents; bound in cloth, gilt back, 50 cents.
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