Order of Precedence of Motions. (OPM)
Table of Rules Relating to Motions.
(TRM)
Preface. (PRE)
Introduction. (INT)
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Parliamentary Law (PAR)
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Plan of the Work (WRK)
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Definitions (DEF)
Part I.- Rules of Order.
Art. I.- How Business is Conducted in
Deliberative Assemblies.
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1. Introduction of Business
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2. What Precedes Debate
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3. Obtaining the Floor
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4. Motions and Resolutions
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5. Seconding Motions
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6. Stating the Question
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7. Debate
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8. Secondary Motions
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9. Putting the Question and
Announcing the Vote
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10. Proper Motions to Use to
Accomplish Certain Objects
Art. II.- General Classification of
Motions.
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11. Main or Principal Motions
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12. Subsidiary Motions
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13. Incidental Motions
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14. Privileged Motions
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15. Some Main and Unclassified
Motions
Art. III.- Privileged Motions.
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16. Fix the Time to which the
Assembly shall Adjourn
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17. Adjourn
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18. Take a Recess
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19. Questions of Privilege
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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
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22. Suspension of the Rules
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23. Objection to the Consideration
of a Question
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24. Division of a Question, and
Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim
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25. Division of the Assembly, and
Motions relating to Methods of Voting, or to Closing or Reopening the
Polls
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26. Motions relating to Methods of
Making, or to Closing or to Reopening Nominations
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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
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29. The Previous Question
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30. Limit or Extend Limits of
Debate
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31. Postpone Definitely, or to a
Certain Time
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32. Commit or Refer, or
Recommit
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33. Amend
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34. Postpone Indefinitely
Art. VI.- Some Main and Unclassified
Motions.
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35. Take from the Table
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36. Reconsider
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37. Rescind
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38. Renewal of a Motion
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39. Ratify
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40. Dilatory, Absurd, or Frivolous
Motions
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41. Call of the House
Art. VII.- Debate.
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42. Debate
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43. Decorum in Debate
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44. Closing and Preventing
Debate
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45. Principles of Debate and
Undebatable Motions
Art. VIII.- Vote.
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46. Voting
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47. Votes that are Null and Void
even if Unanimous
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48. Motions requiring more than a
Majority Vote
Art. IX.- Committees and Boards.
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49. Committees Classified
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50. Boards of Managers, etc., and
Executive Committees
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51. Ex-Officio Members of Boards and
Committees
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52. Committees, Special and
Standing
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53. Reception of Reports
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54. Adoption or Acceptance of
Reports
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55. Committee of the Whole
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56. As if in Committee of the
Whole
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57. Informal Consideration
Art. X.- The Officers and the Minutes.
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58. Chairman or President
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59. Secretary or Clerk
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60. The Minutes
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61. Executive Secretary
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62. Treasurer
Art. XI.- Miscellaneous.
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63. Session
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64. Quorum
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65. Order of Business
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66. Nominations and Elections
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67. Constitutions, By-laws, Rules of
Order, and Standing Rules
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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
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(b) Adoption of
Resolutions
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(c) Committee to draft
Resolutions
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(d) Semi-Permanent Mass
Meeting
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70. A Permanent Society.
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(a) First Meeting
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(b) Second Meeting
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(c) Regular Meeting
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71. Meeting of a Convention.
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(a) An Organized
Convention
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(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
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73. Right of an Assembly to Eject
any one from its Place of Meeting
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74. Rights of Ecclesiastical
Tribunals
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75. Trial of Members of
Societies
Plan for Study of Parliamentary Law.
(PLN)
- Introduction
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Lesson Outlines (LES)
Index (NDX)
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