Iowa Manual of Legislative Procedure (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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When Thomas J efierson, as president of the United States Senate, was called upon in 1797 to pass upon all questions of order 'without debate and Without appeal he turned to the British Parliament for guidance in legislative procedure. Up to that time American parliamentary law had been an agglomeration of English precedents which were reverenced because they were precé dents' For this reason, Jefferson during the term of his vice-presidency, found it necessary to compile for his own use, as the presiding officer of the Senate, a set of parliamentary rules based upon the practices of the House of Commons, the pro visions of the Constitution of the United States, and the adopted rules of the Senate. Mr. Jefferson was not certain as to the accuracy of all the rules he laid down, although they were based Upon available English authorities, Hatsel being pre eminent in the citations. He said, in the little preface to his rules, I have begun a Sketch, which those who come after me will successively correct and fill up till a code Of rules shall be formed for the use of the Senate, the efiects of which may be accuracy in business, economy of time, order, uni formity, and impartiality.

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