 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...greater man than either of us on parliamentary practice [meaning, it is presumed, Mr. Hatsell,] has said, "it is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is;" and I think upon that ground alone the old practice might well be sustained. As to the reasons addressed... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...House; by a strict adherence to which, the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check,...much more material that there should be a rule to goby, than what that rule is; that there may be an uniformity of proceeding in business, not subject... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 688 pages
...greater man than either of us on parliamentary practice [meaning, it is presumed, Mr. Hatsell,] has said, "it is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is;" and I think upon that ground alone the old practice might well be sustained. As to the reasons addressed... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1831 - 692 pages
...greater man than cither of us on parliamentary practice [meaning, It is presumed, Mr. Katsell,] has said, "it is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is;" and I think upon thr t ground alone the oM practice might well be sustained. As to the reasons addressed... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - England - 1832 - 382 pages
...from the strict adherence to which the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check,...apt to suggest to large and successful majorities. I remember a story of Mr. Onslow, which they who ridiculed his strict observation of form were fond... | |
 | Benjamin Matthias - Parliamentary practice - 1846 - 128 pages
...strict adherence to which the weaker party can always be protected from those irregularities and abuses which the wantonness of power is but too often apt to suggest to large and successful majorities. So remarks Hatsell. The mode of introducing a report from the minority of a committee, is explained... | |
 | Benjamin Matthias - 1850 - 158 pages
...strict adherence to which the weaker party can always be protected from those irregularities and abuses which the wantonness of power is but too often apt to suggest to large and successful majorities. So remarks Hatsell. The mode of introducing a report from the minority of a committee, is explained... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...; by a strict adherence to which, the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check,...large and successful majorities. [2 Hats. 171, 172. ] * This Manual was compiled more than half a century ago by Ex-President Jefferson Us Parliamentary... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 612 pages
...from, Dear Sir, Yours affectionately. weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check,...but too often apt to suggest to large and successful majorities.—2 Hats. 171, 172. And whether these forms be in all cases the most rational or not, is... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1854 - 1022 pages
...which ' the weaker party can only be protected from ' those irregularities and abuses which these 1 forms were intended to check, and which the ' wantonness...to : suggest to large and successful majorities." Now, sir, it must be admitted, that the ordinary and correct course of legislation is, to afford a... | |
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... those in power, are the forms and rules of proceeding which have been adopted as they were found necessary, from time to time, and are become the law of the House; by a strict adherence to which, the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities... 
