Sentences with phrase «parliamentary practice»

I should say that my main expertise is in parliamentary practice and legislative history.

The Current House of Representatives have adopted Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice.

An open invitation to all made it needless to invite representatives from special interest organizations to express their views, a clear departure from common parliamentary practice which has been, and remains, to invite special interest groups to influence, or even draft, legislation of interest to them.

But if the modernisation of PMQs might transform it into a more dignified parliamentary practice, it will fall short of the public's expectations.

However, politics does often trump parliamentary practice.

While their use is well entrenched in Canadian parliamentary practice, it is nonetheless often

The manual of parliamentary practice was interesting reading.

In parliamentary practice, a joint ballot is an election or vote by ballot participated in by the members of both houses of a legislative assembly sitting together as one body, the result being determined by a majority of the votes cast by the joint assembly thus constituted, instead of by concurrent majorities of the two houses.

Maiden speeches by new MLAs are one of those parliamentary practices dispensed with in the quiet intervals of the legislative agenda, attracting no media attention, and are given mainly for the edific...

In fact, every obscure trick in the book, specifically - Erskine May, Parliamentary Practice - will be deployed as we enter a debate potentially without end.

The President will also serve as spokesperson for the Society, call special meetings of the Board of Directors when necessary, and perform all other duties that custom, parliamentary practice and usage may require of the office.