Those principles are relatively simple. It has been held always that the ordinary legislative duties and functions of the House. exercised by authority of the Constitution. must proceed according to the order prescribed by the rules. The fact that the Constitution says that the House shall have power to lay taxes. regulate commerce. make naturalization laws. coin money. establish post offices. create courts. support armies and a navy. and so forth. has not given these subjects when embodied In bills any right to disturb the order of business provided by the rules. The very object of the rules is to provide an orderly way for considering those and other subjects intrusted to the Houses judgment.. To give all those subjects constitutional privilege would be to establish constitutional chaos In the House. "There are. however. certain functions which the Constitution enjoins on Congress to do. and also fixes the time for doing these things.
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