• In certain countries, a motion in parliamentary procedure is a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action...
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    Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. Their object is to allow orderly...
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  • Look up table in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In parliamentary procedure, the verb to table has the opposite meaning in the United States from that...
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  • Debate in parliamentary procedure refers to discussion on the merits of a pending question; that is, whether it should or should not be agreed to. It...
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  • (1969). Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure, Blue Book, p. 146 Keesey, Ray E. (1974). Modern Parliamentary Procedure. p. 31. ISBN 0-395-19397-4...
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  • In United States parliamentary procedure , recognition, or assignment of the floor, is the exclusive right to be heard at that time by a member of a deliberative...
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  • In parliamentary procedure, reconsideration of a motion (or reconsideration of a question) may be done on a matter previously decided. The motion to "reconsider"...
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  • Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies...
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  • Mover or movers may refer to: Motion (parliamentary procedure), in parliamentary procedure, the person who introduces a motion Moving company, a service which...
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  • In parliamentary procedure, the motion to amend is used to modify another motion. An amendment could itself be amended. A related procedure is filling...
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  • Adjournment (redirect from Adjourn (motion))
    In parliamentary procedure, an adjournment ends a meeting. It could be done using a motion to adjourn. A time for another meeting could be set using the...
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    Cloture (redirect from Guillotine Motion)
    a guillotine, is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. The cloture procedure originated in the French...
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  • In parliamentary procedure, requests and inquiries are motions used by members of a deliberative assembly to obtain information or to do or have something...
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  • of the above items. A call for the orders of the day, in parliamentary procedure, is a motion to require a deliberative assembly to conform to its agenda...
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    Committee (redirect from Commit (motion))
    report. In parliamentary procedure, the motion to commit (or refer) is used to refer another motion—usually a main motion—to a committee. A motion to commit...
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  • February 1881)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 3 February 1881. "THE NEW RULES OF PROCEDURE. (Hansard, 24 February 1885)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)...
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  • In US parliamentary procedure, the previous question (also known as "calling for the question", "calling the question", "close debate", "calling for a...
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  • A motion to vacate the chair or motion to declare the chair vacant, commonly shortened to motion to vacate, is a procedure in which a member of a legislative...
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  • In United States parliamentary procedure, a suspension of the rules allows a deliberative assembly to set aside its normal rules to do something that...
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  • In parliamentary procedure, a motion to appeal from the decision of the chair is used to challenge a ruling of the chair. The most common occasions for...
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    Robert's Rules of Order (category Parliamentary procedure)
    Order, often simply referred to as Robert's Rules, is a manual of parliamentary procedure by U.S. Army officer Henry Martyn Robert. "The object of Rules...
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  • Private bill Right of initiative (legislative) Motion (parliamentary procedure) Table (parliamentary procedure), which has a different meaning in the US compared...
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  • The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (formerly the Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure by Alice Sturgis) is a book of rules of order...
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  • According to Robert's Rules of Order, a widely used guide to parliamentary procedure, a meeting is a gathering of a group of people to make decisions...
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  • In parliamentary procedure, the motion to postpone indefinitely is a subsidiary motion used to kill a main motion without taking a direct vote on it. This...
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  • to: Motion (legal), a procedural device in law Motion (parliamentary procedure), a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly Motion (geometry)...
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  • Parliamentary procedure in the corporate world may follow traditional parliamentary authorities such as Robert's Rules of Order or simpler rules of order...
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  • Objection to the consideration of a question (category Articles that cite the 4th edition of The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure)
    In parliamentary procedure, an objection to the consideration of a question is a motion that is adopted to prevent an original main motion from coming...
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    prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure Motion (parliamentary procedure) The second and final term of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of...
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  • Repeal (redirect from Motion to rescind)
    savings provisions within the Interpretation Act 1978. In parliamentary procedure, the motion to rescind, repeal, or annul is used to cancel or countermand...
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