Rice's Rules of Order: A Digest of Rules and Principles and Dictionary of Words and Phrases, with Table, Answering at a Glance Eight Hundred Questions of Parliamentary Practice ...Stanton and Van Vliet, 1921 - 233 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 112 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 200 - Constitution, be referred to a committee of three, to be appointed by the chair...
Page 136 - In all other cases of ballot than for committees, a majority of the votes given shall be necessary to an election ; and where there shall not be such a majority on the first ballot, the ballot shall be repeated until a majority be obtained.
Page 160 - When a motion or proposition is under consideration a motion to amend and a motion to amend that amendment shall be in order, and it shall also be in order to offer a further amendment by way of substitute, to which one amendment may be offered...
Page 61 - Raise a Question of Privilege. Call for the Orders of the Day. Lay on the Table. Previous Question (%). @ Limit or Extend Limits of Debate (%). @ Postpone to a Certain Time.
Page 134 - ... to reject one of them, and then to incorporate the substance of it with the other by way of amendment. A better mode, however, if the business of the assembly will admit of its being adopted, is to refer both propositions to a committee, with instructions to incorporate them together in one. 89. So, on the other hand, if the matter of one proposition would be more properly distributed into two, any part of it may be struck out by way of amendment, and put into the 1 The above is the rule as laid...
Page 169 - THE GREAT PURPOSE OF ALL RULES AND FORMS, IS TO SUBSERVE THE WILL OF THE ASSEMBLY RATHER THAN TO RESTRAIN IT; TO FACILITATE, AND NOT TO OBSTRUCT, THE EXPRESSION OF THEIK DELIBERATE SENSE.
Page 166 - No new motion or resolution shall be made until the one under consideration is disposed of which may be done by adoption or rejection, unless one of the following...
Page 175 - ... a member then present by his name; but to describe him by his seat in the assembly, or as the member who spoke last, or last but one, or on the other side of the question, or by some other equivalent expression. The purpose of this rule is to guard as much as possible against the excitement of all personal feeling, either of favor or of hostility, by separating, as it were, the official from the personal character of...
Page 198 - The question is, Shall the decision of the chair stand as the decision of the convention...