Speaker's List
This motion is the very first motion made in every Model UN committee.
What is a motion to open debate?
This is the purpose of an unmoderated caucus.
What is so delegates can freely walk around the room, talk to one another, and/or write draft resolutions?
These are the three parts of every draft resolution.
What are the Header, Preambulatory Clauses, and Operative Clauses?
This is the motion made to move into voting procedure.
What is a motion to close debate?
What is a motion to suspend debate?
This is the subject of debate on the Primary Speaker's List.
What is the Agenda?
These are the three components of a motion for a moderated caucus.
What are a total time, speaking time, and purpose/topic?
This is the name of a the first stage of a draft resolution, before it is edited and merged.
What is a working paper?
This is the order in which draft resolutions are automatically voted on.
What is the order in which they were presented to the committee?
(Note: this can be changed with a Motion to Reorder Draft Resolutions)
There are 50 delegates in a committee. This is the simple majority.
What is 26?
These are the three yields a delegate may make with their remaining time on a Speakers' List.
What are:
1. Yield to the Chair;
2. Yield to Questions/Points of Information;
3. Yield to Another Delegate?
This is the order in which motions are voted on.
What is in order of most disruptive to least disruptive?
This is the name of a delegate who is one of the main authors of a draft resolution.
What is a sponsor?
During a roll call vote, this is the name of a voting with a request to accompany one's vote with a 30-second speech to explain the reasoning behind the vote.
What is voting with rights?
These are the three points that delegates may make at Model UN conferences.
What are the Point of Order, Point of Personal Privilege, and Point of Inquiry?
A committee has two Agenda items: Topic A and Topic B. This is the result of a Motion to Set the Agenda to Topic B, then Topic A failing.
What is the Agenda is automatically set to Topic A, then Topic B?
This quality is what determines how disruptive a motion for a moderated caucus is.
What is the number of speakers?
These are the three types of amendments.
What are:
1. Non-substantive amendments;
2. Friendly amendments;
3. Unfriendly amendments?
A draft resolution receives 4 votes in favor, 3 votes opposed, and 45 abstentions. Does it pass?
What is yes?
A delegate's national character or personal integrity has been impugned. This is what they may petition the Chair for in order to respond.
What is a Right of Reply?
This is the name of the percentage of delegates required to be in committee for debate to begin.
What is quorum?
There are three proposed motions: a 5-minute extension of the previous moderated caucus, a 6-minute moderated caucus with a 30-second speaking time, and a 10 minute moderated caucus with a 1 minute speaker time. This is the order of these motions from most disruptive to least disruptive.
What is:
1. The 5-minute extension;
2. The 6:30 moderated caucus;
3. The 10:1 moderated caucus?
This is the full, official name of the motion for a question and answer session.
What is Motion to Suspend the Rules for (the Purpose of) a Question and Answer Session?
These are the four steps of a Motion to Divide the Question.
What are:
1. Motion to divide the question;
2. Vote on procedural divisions of the draft resolution;
3. Vote on the substantive elements that have been divided;
4. Vote on the final reconstituted draft resolution of the elements that have passed?
This is the motion used as a last resort when delegates wish to abandon an agenda item and move onto the next one.
What is a motion to table the topic?