JUDGMENT. Judgments in Parliament, for death, have been strictly guided per legem terræ, which they cannot alter; and not at all according to their discretion. They can neither admit any part of the legal judgment, nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum, non ultra legem.-Seld. Jud. 168, 169, 170, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremonies, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments were not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful delinquents. The judgment, therefore, is to be such as is warranted by legal principles or precedents.-6 Sta. Tr. 14-2 Wood. 611. The Chancellor gives judgments in misdemeanors; the Lord High Steward, formerly, in cases of life and death.-Seld. Jud. 180. But now the Steward is deemed not necessary.-Fost. 144.-1 Wood. 613. In misdemeanors, the greatest corporal punishment hath been imprisonment.-Seld. Jud. 184. The King's assent is necessary in capital judgments, (but 2 Wood. 614, contra,) but not in misdemeanors.-Seld. Jud. 136. CONTINUANCE. An impeachment is not discontinued by the dissolution of Parliament; but may be resumed by the new Parliament.-T. Ray, 383-5 Com. Jour. 23 Dec. 1790.-Lord's Jour. May 16, 1791-2 Wood. 618. INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL. Absence, not allowed without leave,. provision in case of, Address, how presented, Adhere, question discussed, effect of a vote to, should be two conferences before vote to, of the session, all unfinished business falls,. for more than three days by concurrent votes, Amendment to Bills-See also Bills,. how to be reported, fall on recommitment,. in the third degree not admissible, discussion of the nature and coherence of, Speaker cannot refuse to receive because inconsistent, may totally change the subject,... if House refuse to strike out a paragraph it cannot be amended,. a new bill may be engrafted on another, mode of poceeding on amendments between the Houses,. made in committee of the whole, falls by reference,. proposed, inconsistent with one adopted may be put, may be amended, prior to adoption but not after,. (proposed,) by striking out, and lost, the paragraphs proposed to be stricken out cannot be amended,. not identical or equivalent to one lost, may be proposed,. Apportionment of representatives, table of, Appropriation, made by resolution, terminates with the session,... Assault and Affrays in the House, how settled,. Assent to bills, by the executive, regulations respecting, Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into, one House may pass with blanks and be filled in the other, on third reading, forms observed, 149, 150 154 154 154 154 155 150 151 151 122 147 147, 148 147 147 by whom to be taken from House to House, may be specially commended to notice of the other House,. if one House neglects a bill, the other may remind of it,. amendment to an amendment has precedence over a motion to .... amendments to amendments, how far admissible, proceedings upon in committee of the whole, &c.,... titles, when made, reconsideration, when and how the question may be moved, Bills, (rejected) relating to their being brought in during the same session,.. originating in one House, rejected in the other, may be renewed 148 in the rejecting House, 148 expedient for remedying omissions in, 148 mode of proceeding, when founded on facts requiring explanation,.... 148 effect of a vote to insist or adhere, 150 conferences upon, at what stages, and by whom asked, 151 papers relating to, to be left with the conferees of the House acceding to the conference,. 153 enrolling, 155 proceedings when disapproved, 155 not returned in ten days, to be laws, unless an adjournment intervene, 156 Blanks, longest time, largest sum first put,. 131 bills may be passed with, and be filled in other House, may be filled in engrossed bills, 137 142 construction of the rule of filling, Breach of Peace, mode of proceeding on charge of,. Bribery, (Randall and Whitney's case,) breach of privilege,. Clerk, puts questions before the election of Speaker,.. Committees, cannot inquire concerning their members,. must not sit when House is in Session,.. how they report amendments, cannot sit in the recess after Congress has expired, a member elect, though not returned, may be appointed on,. standing, joint, how they act,.. 120 159 93 101 101, 118 101 117 117 118 118 members of the House may be present at their sittings,. their power over a bill, 118 121 Committees, have entire control over a report recommitted, dissolved by a report,... 122 122 how revived,.. 122 may be discharged from instructions, 148 when they may sit during recess, 159 effect of a reference to, when a bill has been amended in commit tee of the whole, 122 Committee of the Whole, great matters usually referred to, report proceedings, 103 subjects which have passed through may be referred to special Conferences, common to have two before vote to adhere, discussion of the nature and occasion of, 123 122 160 103 151 Debate, no one to speak impertinently, superfluously, or tediously,. not cut off, till both sides of the question be put, cannot alter any thing on which the Houses have agreed,. report of, cannot be amended or altered, when, by which House, and what stages to be asked,.. Co-existing questions, discussed, Counsel may be heard on private bills and law points, Covered, when members are not to be, forms and proprieties to be observed,. The Speaker not allowed to engage in, except on points of order, 152 152 152 153 152 139 105 99 violation of order in, to be suppressed by the Speaker,. 109, 112 disorderly words not to be noticed until the member has finished, 110 disorderly words when taken down, 110 proceedings of the House not to be noticed in,. 110 members concerned or implicated by the subject of, ought to 111 Decorum, points of, (See Debate,).. 110, 111 Defamatory publications, breach of privilege,. 93 Disorder in Committee of Whole, Speaker to resume chair if great,. 103 |