Quill Project

Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Road to Civil War

George P. Fisher

(13 October, 1817 -- 10 February, 1899) Fisher was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Sussex County, Del., Fisher studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841. Fisher served as a member of the State House of Representatives in 1843 and 1844, as secretary of state in 1846, and Confidential Clerk to Secretary Clayton in the Department of State at Washington in 1849. Later, Fisher served as commissioner to adjudicate claims against Brazil from 1850 to 1852 and was the Attorney General of Delaware from 1857 to 1860. Fisher was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4th, 1861 to March 3rd, 1863. After an unsuccessful candidacy for the Thirty-eighth Congress, Fisher was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After resigning, Fisher was appointed District Attorney for the District of Columbia and served until 1875. Fisher served as First Auditor of the Treasury Department from 1893 until his death in 1899. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]

Member of Delaware Delegation - The Road to Civil War [this display].

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