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Definition of Parliamentary procedure

1. Noun. A body of rules followed by an assembly.

Definition of Parliamentary procedure

1. Noun. The formal procedures used by a deliberative assembly in its decision making to keep order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parliamentary Procedure

Literary usage of Parliamentary procedure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"NOTES ON parliamentary procedure WRITS ... The custom anJ precedents of Parliament, which dictate the bulk of parliamentary procedure, have acquired, ..."

2. Legislative Procedure: Parliamentary Practices and the Course of Business in by Robert Luce (1922)
"Bryce tells us the facilities that parliamentary procedure there affords for delaying the ... Until in this respect parliamentary procedure is perfected, ..."

3. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1913)
"GENERAL ASPECTS OF parliamentary procedure By reason of the supreme importance which attaches to the legislative and fiscal activities of the two chambers ..."

4. France by John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1898)
"CHAPTER IV parliamentary procedure AND PRACTICE EVEN if the parliamentary system cannot be regarded as satisfactory or as permanent it is not for that ..."

5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1907)
"... Unemployment—Mr. Balfour's Return for the City— The Redistribution Committee—Reform of parliamentary procedure—The Navy Estimates—The House of Lords on ..."

6. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1913)
"GENERAL ASPECTS OF parliamentary procedure By reason of the supreme importance which attaches to the legislative and fiscal activities of the two chambers ..."

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