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Definition of Closure by compartment
1. Noun. Closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closure By Compartment
Literary usage of Closure by compartment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1903)
"... carried as introduced by the closure-by-compartment method of curtailing debate.
The Act undoubtedly makes some good changes in the Education System. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"... without discussion, under the operation of the closure-by-compartment arrangement,
a fourth entirely distinct type—the State-aided, but not rate-aided ..."
3. Principles of Political Science by Robert Niven Gilchrist (1921)
"It takes the form of a motion in the words "That the question be now put."
(2) The Guillotine, or closure by compartment, according to which a time is fixed ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Great Britain (1908)
"At that time closure by compartment had not become the rule. Now it was becoming
the ordinary procedure, and that fact should make them very careful not to ..."
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