1. 2 His tactics were to entangle the opposition in a web of parliamentary procedure.

2. The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC) treats the motion to adjourn as a privileged motion but under fewer circumstances.

3. Cloture or closure is a concept in parliamentary procedure, which is the backbone of government in many nations of the world

4. Bluebook in UK Parliamentary procedure, a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee.

5. Cloture, also called closure, in parliamentary procedure, a method for ending debate and securing an immediate vote on a measure that is before a deliberative body, even when some members wish to continue the debate.

6. Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a …

7. Cloture: 1 n a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body Synonyms: closure , gag law , gag rule Types: closure by compartment , guillotine closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill Type of: order , parliamentary law , parliamentary procedure , rules of order a body of rules followed by an assembly v terminate

8. Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot.Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a participant in a vote cast a deliberately unlegitimate vote (drawing pictures on the ballot, etc.) or in which he simply casts a

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