Recess
Describe the Standard Descriptive Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the motion to Recess that relate to:
1. Debate.
2. Amending.
3. Reconsidering.
1. Undebatable.
2. Amendable.
3. Cannot be reconsidered.
Describe the Standard Descriptive
Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the motion to Amend that relate to:
1. Reconsidering.
2. Amending.
3. Precedence over privileged motions.
1. Can be reconsidered.
2. Amendable.
3. Yields to all privileged motions.
Describe the Standard Descriptive
Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the motion to Postpone Indefinitely that relate to:
1. Reconsidering.
2. Amending.
3. Precedence over privileged motions.
1. Affirmative vote can be reconsidered.
2. Unamendable.
3. Yields to all privileged motions.
Describe the Standard Descriptive
Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for a Main Motion that relate to:
1. Debate
2. Seconding
3. Reconsidering.
1. Debatable.
2. Must be seconded.
3. Can be reconsidered.
Describe the Standard Descriptive Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the Previous Question that relate to:
1. Seconding.
2. Amending.
3. Precedence over privileged motions.
1. Requires a second.
2. Unamendable.
3. Yields to all privileged motions.
Describe the Standard Descriptive Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the motion to Recess that relate to:
1. Seconding.
2. Voting.
3. If it can be made when another member has the floor.
1. Requires a second.
2. Needs a majority vote to be adopted.
3. Cannot be made when another member has the floor.
1. What is the amendment process called where words are placed between words?
2. What is the amendment process called where words are cut out?
3. What is the amendment process called to replace words that are deleted?
1. To insert words.
2. To strike out words.
3. To strike out and insert words.
1. What motion(s) does Postpone Indefinitely take precedence over?
2. How does it rank compared to the other subsidiary motions?
3. What subsidiary motions does it yield to?
1. Main Motion.
2. Lowest ranking subsidiary motion.
3. It yields to all subsidiary motions.
Name three unamendable privileged motions that take precedence over a Main Motion
1. Adjourn.
2. Raise a Question of Privilege.
3. Call for the Orders of the Day.
Describe the Standard Descriptive Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the Previous Question that relate to:
1. Debating
2. Voting.
3. If it can be made when another member has the floor.
1. Undebatable.
2. A two-thirds vote is required.
3. Cannot be made when another member has the floor.
Name three amendable subsidiary motions that the motion to Recess takes precedence over.
1. Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely).
2. Commit or Refer.
3. Amend.
Describe the Standard Descriptive
Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the motion to Amend that relate to:
1. Seconding
2. Voting
3. If it can be made when another member has the floor.
1. Must be seconded.
2. A majority vote is required.
3. Cannot be made when another member has the floor.
Describe the Standard Descriptive
Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for the motion to Postpone Indefinitely that relate to:
1. Seconding.
2. Voting.
3. Being made when another member has the floor.
1. Must be seconded.
2. A majority vote is required.
3. Cannot be made when another member has the floor.
Describe the Standard Descriptive
Characteristics (abbrev. SDCs) for a Main Motion that relate to:
1. Seconding
2. If it can be amended
3. If it can be made when another member has the floor.
1. Requires a second.
2. Amendable.
3. Not in order when another member has the floor.
Name three debatable subsidiary motions that the motion Previous Question has precedence over.
1. Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely)
2. Commit or Refer.
3. Amend.
4. Postpone Indefinitely.
1. What is a Recess?
2. How long is a Recess normally?
3. Where will business be taken up at the end of a Recess?
1. A short intermission during a meeting.
2. Usually a few minutes.
3. At the point where the Recess began during the meeting.
Name the three processes of amendment relating to words?
1. Insert or add.
2. Strike out.
3. To strike out and insert and to substitute.
1. Name two consequences of adopting the motion to Postpone Indefinitely.
2. Compared to other subsidiary motions, how is debate different for Postpone Indefinitely?
1. It kills the Main Motion
and avoids a direct vote on the main motion.
2. Debate can go into the merits of the Main Motion it is applied to.
1. When can a Main Motion be brought up?
2. Name two motions that can bring up a Main Motion while business is pending.
1. When no other motions are pending.
2. Call for the Orders of the Day
and
Question of Privilege.
Name three forms of wording used to make the motion Previous Question in an unqualified form.
1. “I move the previous question”
2. “I demand the previous question.”
3. “I call for the question.”
4. “I call the question.”
5. “I move we vote now.”
Name three forms of wording used to make the privileged motion to Recess.
1. “I move that the meeting recess [or “take a recess”] until 1 P.M.”
2. “I move to recess for fifteen minutes.”
3. “I move to recess until called to order by the chair.”
1. What are two terms used for a primary amendment?
2. What is one term for a secondary
amendment?
1. Amendment of the first degree
and
amendment to the main question.
2. Amendment to the second degree
or
Amendment to an amendment.
1. Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (abbrev. RONR) states that debate on a motion to Postpone Indefinitely can go into the merits of the underlying main motion. What does that mean?
2. Does this mean that debate can only be for the positive side of the main motion?
3. What other subsidiary motion allow member’s to debate and go into the merits of the underlying main motion?
1. It means debate can be just as if debating on the main motion itself.
2. No.
3. None.
What are the three steps in considering a Main Motion before the assembly?
1. The motion is debated.
2. The presiding officer puts the question.
3. The presiding officer announces the result of the vote.
1. Is the Previous Question allowed in
committees?
2. What effect does an order for the Previous Question have on making privileged and incidental motions?
3. Explain how an order for the Previous Question effects a special order.
1. No
2. It does not prevent the making of privileged and incidental motions.
3. It does not prevent taking up a special order.