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Rules of procedure

Parliament, the greater part of the rules are unwritten, to be collected from the journals or reports of debates, or to be ascertained from personal experience; the written part constitutes a very small portion of the corpus

Speaker

Speaker, is the guardian of the privileges of the House. His function is to regulate debate and enforce the observance of the rules which govern its conduct. He is also representative of the House

Vice-President

the Rajya Sabha. He presides over the sittings of that House. He enjoys all powers to regulate the debate and proceeding of Rajya Sabha and is also the Head of the Secretariat of that Hose, A Comment-ary

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Briga

Briga [fr. brique, Fr.], debate, contention

Protraction

continuing the act of delaying the termination of a thing prolongation continuance delay as the protraction of a debate

Articles, Lords of the

influence of the Crown, and to confer upon it a power equivalent to that of a negative before debate. This system appeared inconsistent with the freedom of Parliament, and at the Revolution, the convention of Estates declared

report out

out : to return after consideration and often with revisions to a legislative body for action [after much debate the committee reported the bill out]

canvass

detail ;specif : to examine (votes) officially for authenticity b : to make the subject of discussion or debate 2 : to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political

cloture

cloture [French clture, literally, closure] : the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body esp. by calling for a vote cloture vt

Misstate

To state wrongly as to misstate a question in debate

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