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A man holding the mace, to show scale. The design of the mace is derived from an ancient battle weapon and the Roman fasces.The ceremonial mace is 46 inches (120 cm) high and consists of 13 ebony rods—representing the original 13 states of the Union—bound together by silver strands criss-crossed over the length of the pole.
The House of Assembly reconvened with a temporary wooden mace loaned by Canada; this was the same temporary mace used by the House of Commons of Canada after it lost its own mace to a fire in 1916. The temporary mace ultimately returned to Canada freshly gilded. [ 17 ]
The mace was made in England in 1938 and passed through several owners before being purchased by an art dealer. [5] Each day that the House is in session, the mace is placed in the House chamber by the sergeant-at-arms, Jay Pearson. [1] When not in use, the mace is on display in the old hall of the House of Delegates. [4]
Mace, who has served in the House since 2021, spoke for nearly an hour in the lower chamber, accusing four South Carolina men of being “predators” and displaying their names and photos on a ...
Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting on a plan to fund the government and avert a shutdown in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, December ...
Mace, a former South Carolina state House member, was the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the state’s military college, where her father then served as commandant of cadets. Briefly ...
The mace symbolizes the legislative authority of the House of Representatives. As stipulated in Section 165 of the House Rules, it is displayed at the foot of the Speaker's rostrum whenever the House is in session and is used by the Sergeant-at-Arms in to enforce order in the House upon the Speaker's instruction. [1]
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina accused four men, including her former fiancé Patrick Bryant, of sexual misconduct in a nearly hour-long speech on the House floor on Monday, Feb. 10 ...