On february 27 1801 the day before jefferson resigned his duties as president of the senate the publication of a manual of parliamentary practice was announced in a washington newspaper on march 4 he would be inaugurated as the third president of the united states the country had successfully come through the tumultuous. jeffersons manual veroffentlicht als a manual of parliamentary practice ist ein 1801 von thomas jefferson geschriebenes buch das die parlamentarische geschaftsordnung der damaligen zeit untersucht und sie konzise ordnet ursprunglich fur den . A manual of parliamentary practice composed originally for the use of the senate of the united states by jefferson thomas 1743 1826 publication date 1840 topics united states