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| The name given to the tradition of rules and customs. Mainly formed by centuries of trial and error in the English Parliament, from which the name comes. |
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| Groups who meet as a way to decide on actions to which to be taken. |
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| To occupy the place of authority or control. |
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(Chairperson/Chair)
The presiding officer of a meeting, committee, and/or board. |
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| An officer appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of people. |
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| The official record of the proceedings at a meeting of a society, committee, and/or board. |
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| A person/official in charge of records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affaris of an organization, committee, and/or board. |
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| A minimum number of members who must be present for a meeting to take place. |
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| The regular schedule in which a meeting takes place. This includes the Reading and Approval of Minutes, Reports, Unfinished Business, and New Business. |
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| Matters which have come over from the presiding meeting or which have been scheduled for the present meeting. |
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| Matters initiated in the present meeting. |
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| The set order in which specific items are to be considered, and sometimes sets the exact times for their consideration. |
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| A short break from a meeting. |
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| A breif pause in the meeting. members are expected to remain in their places, perhaps talking quietly, until the chair again calls the meeting to order. |
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| A formal proposal by a member, in a meeting, that the group take certain action. |
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| One whose introduction brings business before an assembly. |
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| When someone is authorized to speak by the chair they ________. |
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| When finished speaking, and seated, a member thus ______. |
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| At least two members of an organization would like a certian matter considered. |
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| Discussion on the merits of the question-that is, whether the proposed action should or should not be considered. |
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| Subsidiary, Privileged, and Incidental Motions. |
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| Instances in which members who are present do not vote-are not counted and have no effect on the result. |
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| Bringing a motion to a vote. |
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| a report that states which side "has it." |
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| Guidelines stating that, each member may only debate twice per motion, and for only up to ten minutes. |
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| When the chair designates a member to speak. |
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| When remarks must have bearing on whether the pending motion should be adopted. |
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| The motion to close debate immediately. |
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| The action of which the wording of a motion is modified, and words in the motion are added/taken away. |
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| The replacing of a paragraph or paragraphs in the immediately pending motion with one or more paragraphs given in the ammendment. |
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| When an amendment is amended. Also known as "amendment of the second degree" or "Amendment to the amendment." |
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| When a motion is "turned over" to a committee for study or redrafting before the full froup can consider it further. |
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| a committee with a continuous existence and function. For example: the Education Committee, or the Membership Committee. |
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| Committees created for certain tasks and they are removed from existence when that task is completed. |
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| When a motion is taken from a previous meeting and considered to be removed completely. |
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| When a motion is made again after it has been defeated. |
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| More than half the votes are cast on one side. |
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| The largest number of votes (which may be less than a majority) when there are three or more alternatives. |
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| At least two thirds of the votes cast by persons entitled to vote. |
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| Majority of the Entire Membership |
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| a Majority of the total number of those who are members of the voting body at the time of the vote. |
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| When something has absolutely no oppisition. |
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| Written rules of Parliamentary Procedure formally adopted by an assembly or an organization. |
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| Rules in which are related to the details of the administration of a society rather than to Parliamentary Procedure, and which can be adopted or changed upon the same conditions as any ordinary act of the society. |
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| When a member states a violation of the rules (which the chair must follow at all times). |
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| When the Assembly as a whole votes to over-rule a decision made by the Chair. |
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| The officer that advises the presiding officer in responding to points of order and parliamentary inquires. (Knows mostly all of Robert's Rules) |
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| Call for the Orders of the Day |
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| To demand to take up the proper business in order |
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| To interrupt the pending business so as to permit doing something else immediately. |
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| To drop the main motion without a direct vote on it. |
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| Motions that assist the assembly in treating or disposing of a main motion (and sometimes other motions) |
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| Motions that relate, in different ways, to the pending business or to businesses otherwise at hand. |
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| The officer entrusted with custody of the organization's funds. |
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