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Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure, referred to as Mason's Manual, is the official parliamentary authority of most state legislatures in the United States. [1] The Manual covers motions, procedures, vote requirements, the rules of order, principles, precedents, and legal basis behind parliamentary law used by legislatures.
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Mason's Manual, originally written by constitutional scholar and former California Senate staff member Paul Mason in 1935, and since his death revised and published by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), governs legislative procedures in instances where the state constitution, state statutes, and the chamber's rules are silent.
Demeter's Manual traces the origins of parliamentary law, by which is meant orderly deliberation and action by an assembly of persons or a body of citizens, to c. 750 BC in Greece. It was during that era that the idea of self-government , with the right to deliberate in assembly and to speak and vote on public questions, was conceived.
Paul Mason (1898–1985) was an American writer, parliamentarian, historian, and assistant Secretary of the California State Senate in the first half of the 20th century. Mason wrote the first edition of Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure in 1935.
Pages in category "Articles that cite the 2000 edition of Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
According to Mason's Manual, matter passed on in this way remains subject to subsidiary motion. [1] The motion to pass on is not subject to debate, but requires a majority vote. In the United States House of Representatives, this motion is often put as a request for unanimous consent. For example, during the consideration of a bill, the ...
In the United States House of Representatives, the previous question originally served the same purpose as it did in the English Parliament. [2] In the 1800s, the House of Representatives altered the rules governing the way the previous question could be used: in 1805, it was rendered undebatable, and in 1841, the fraction of votes needed to pass it was lowered from 2/3 to 1/2, allowing for it ...