Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Second Series. / 4, : Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings ; Parliamentary Pocket-Book and A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. Second Series / / ed. by Wilbur Samuel Howell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Howell, Wilbur Samuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Second Series ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 p.)

This volume in the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson contains the two important parliamentary documents he prepared during his lifelong study of the subject. Jefferson compiled the first document, called the Parliamentary Pocket-Book," while he was president of the Senate by virtue of his position as Vice- President of the United States. This informal guide was the basis for the Manual of Parliamentary Practice, which Jefferson completed in its earliest form by 1800 and which he had published in 1801. The Manual was the new nation's first full parliamentary rule book and is American democracy's reliable guide to its English parliamentary tradition. Still cited on the floors of Congress.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Guide To Editorial Apparatus -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- TJ's Parliamentary Studies, Activities, and Writings: A Chronology -- Parliamentary Pocket-Book -- Editor's Introduction -- Parliamentary Pocket-Book -- Editor's Notes -- A manual of Parliamentary Practice -- Editor's Introduction -- A Manual Of Parliamentary Practice: For The Use Of The Senate Of The United States -- Editor's Notes -- List Of Editions -- Index