Table of Contents
- Order of Precedence of
Motions. (OPM)
- Table of Rules Relating
to Motions. (TRM)
- Preface. (PRE)
- Introduction. (INT)
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- Parliamentary Law
(PAR)
- Plan of the Work
(WRK)
- Definitions
(DEF)
- Part I.- Rules of Order.
- Art. I.- How Business
is Conducted in Deliberative Assemblies.
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- 1. Introduction
of Business
- 2. What Precedes
Debate
- 3. Obtaining the
Floor
- 4. Motions and
Resolutions
- 5. Seconding
Motions
- 6. Stating the
Question
- 7. Debate
- 8. Secondary
Motions
- 9. Putting the
Question and Announcing the Vote
- 10. Proper
Motions to Use to Accomplish Certain Objects
- Art. II.- General
Classification of Motions.
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- 11. Main or
Principal Motions
- 12. Subsidiary
Motions
- 13. Incidental
Motions
- 14. Privileged
Motions
- 15. Some Main
and Unclassified Motions
- Art. III.- Privileged
Motions.
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- 16. Fix the Time
to which the Assembly shall Adjourn
- 17. Adjourn
- 18. Take a
Recess
- 19. Questions of
Privilege
- 20. General and
Special Orders and a Call for the Orders of the Day
- Art. IV.- Incidental
Motions.
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- 21. Questions of
Order and Appeal
- 22. Suspension
of the Rules
- 23. Objection to
the Consideration of a Question
- 24. Division of
a Question, and Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim
- 25. Division of
the Assembly, and Motions relating to Methods of Voting, or to Closing or
Reopening the Polls
- 26. Motions
relating to Methods of Making, or to Closing or to Reopening Nominations
- 27. Requests
growing out of Business Pending or that has just been pending, as, a
Parliamentary Inquiry, a Request for Information, for Leave to Withdraw a
Motion to Read Papers, to be Excused from a Duty, or for any other Privilege
- Art. V.- Subsidiary
Motions.
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- 28. Lay on the
Table
- 29. The Previous
Question
- 30. Limit or
Extend Limits of Debate
- 31. Postpone
Definitely, or to a Certain Time
- 32. Commit or
Refer, or Recommit
- 33. Amend
- 34. Postpone
Indefinitely
- Art. VI.- Some Main
and Unclassified Motions.
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- 35. Take from
the Table
- 36. Reconsider
- 37. Rescind
- 38. Renewal of a
Motion
- 39. Ratify
- 40. Dilatory,
Absurd, or Frivolous Motions
- 41. Call of the
House
- Art. VII.- Debate.
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- 42. Debate
- 43. Decorum in
Debate
- 44. Closing and
Preventing Debate
- 45. Principles
of Debate and Undebatable Motions
- Art. VIII.- Vote.
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- 46. Voting
- 47. Votes that
are Null and Void even if Unanimous
- 48. Motions
requiring more than a Majority Vote
- Art. IX.- Committees
and Boards.
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- 49. Committees
Classified
- 50. Boards of
Managers, etc., and Executive Committees
- 51. Ex-Officio
Members of Boards and Committees
- 52. Committees,
Special and Standing
- 53. Reception of
Reports
- 54. Adoption or
Acceptance of Reports
- 55. Committee of
the Whole
- 56. As if in
Committee of the Whole
- 57. Informal
Consideration
- Art. X.- The Officers
and the Minutes.
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- 58. Chairman or
President
- 59. Secretary or
Clerk
- 60. The Minutes
- 61. Executive
Secretary
- 62. Treasurer
- Art. XI.-
Miscellaneous.
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- 63. Session
- 64. Quorum
- 65. Order of
Business
- 66. Nominations
and Elections
- 67.
Constitutions, By-laws, Rules of Order, and Standing Rules
- 68. Amendments
of Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules of Order
- Part II.- Organization, Meetings, and Legal Rights of Assemblies.
- Art. XII.-
Organization and Meetings.
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- 69. An
Occasional or Mass Meeting
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- (a)
Organization
- (b)
Adoption of Resolutions
- (c)
Committee to draft Resolutions
- (d)
Semi-Permanent Mass Meeting
- 70. A Permanent
Society.
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- (a)
First Meeting
- (b)
Second Meeting
- (c)
Regular Meeting
- 71. Meeting of a
Convention.
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- (a) An
Organized Convention
- (b) A
Convention not yet Organized
- Art. XIII.- Legal
Rights of Assemblies and Trial of Their Members.
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- 72. Right of an
Assembly to Punish its Members
- 73. Right of an
Assembly to Eject any one from its Place of Meeting
- 74. Rights of
Ecclesiastical Tribunals
- 75. Trial of
Members of Societies
- Plan for Study of
Parliamentary Law. (PLN)
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- Introduction
- Lesson Outlines
(LES)
- Index (NDX)