Rules
The person who cannot speak against a main motion
Who is the maker of the motion.
The option where the winner gets the most votes, but it does not have to be a majority of the votes.
What is a plurality?
A set of rules used to govern a meeting.
What is parliamentary procedure?
*Run meetings smoothly
* Ensure all voices are heard
* Maintain order
What are the purposes of parliamentary procedure?
The motion to have a group of members consider a matter more closely.
What is the motion to commit or refer to a committee."
What does a main motion require to be passed?
It needs to be seconded and then it has to have a majority vote.
The usual voting threshold to adopt a motion that impacts a member's rights.
What is a two-thirds vote?
Where the attention of the meeting is focused on at the moment.
What is the floor?
5 ways can votes be counted.
What is by Voice, Raised Hand, Rising Vote, Ballot, and Roll Call.
What do you say to make a main motion?
"Madam/Mister president, I move that..."
If adopted, it forces an immediate vote to take place on a pending motion.
What is the "Previous Question motion"
The definition of a majority vote.
What is more than half of the votes cast.
Motions that change or get rid of a main motion.
What are subsidiary motions?
The number of raps of the gavel needed to call a meeting to order.
What is two.
The language the Presiding Officer says to end a meeting.
What is "the meeting is adjourned."
The Vote required to suspend the standing rules.
What is a majority vote?
T or F: There can be a simple majority.
What is False. A majority vote is neither simple nor complex. It is more than half of the votes cast.
***DAILY DOUBLE***The minimum amount of members required to be present in order for a meeting to be validly conducted.
What is a quorum?
5 ways to amend a main motion
What is by Striking out words, Inserting words, Striking out and inserting words, adding words and substituting paragraphs?
Name of motion to amend a main motion before the Chair states it to the assembly?
What is a friendly amendment?
Name of rules the assembly adopts when it doesn't want to follow RONR.
What are Special Rules of Order?
The result of a vote when the same number are in favor of and opposed to a motion.
What is a lost motion?
The term for an amendment of an amendment.
What is a second-degree amendment?
How Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (12th edition) is often analogized.
What is as the parli-pro bible?
Language used to make a privileged motion.
What is "Madam/Mister Chair, I rise to a question of privilege?"