Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative AssembliesLuther Stearns Cushing was born June 22, 1803, in Lunenburg, Mass., and died in Boston, on his birthday, 1856. He was clerk of the house of representatives ofMassachusetts in 1832, judge of the court of common pleas in 1844, and reporter to the supreme court in 1848, of whose reports eight volumes bear his name. He was a learned and discriminating jurist, but his chief claim to distinction rests upon his studies of parliamentary law. His original "Manual for Deliberative Assemblies," was followed by the great Work on the "Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States," which is recognized as standard authority in the common law governing the organization and procedure of parliamentary bodies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.