Excerpt from The Gavel and the Mace: Or Parliamentary Law in Easy Chapters If, for the purpose of increasing a moderate stock of knowledge upon the subject, one resorts to manuals or treatises of the day - admirable as they are in many respects - it is only to come across a text that is dry, technical, and consequently unattractive. T has oc curred to the writer that principles of parliamentary practice are capable of being treated so as to make a work interesting and entertaining, no less than instruo tive. In other words ...
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Excerpt from The Gavel and the Mace: Or Parliamentary Law in Easy Chapters If, for the purpose of increasing a moderate stock of knowledge upon the subject, one resorts to manuals or treatises of the day - admirable as they are in many respects - it is only to come across a text that is dry, technical, and consequently unattractive. T has oc curred to the writer that principles of parliamentary practice are capable of being treated so as to make a work interesting and entertaining, no less than instruo tive. In other words, that an experiment might be made to impart to the subject a literary form. I have tried to write a book that shall be readable; that shall engage the attention and sustain the interest of what is known as the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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