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The most common parliamentary authority in the United States?
What is Roberts Rules of Order?
These people have the right to attend meetings, offer motions, speak in debate, vote, nominate other members and hold office.
What is a member?
This brings business before the assembly.
What is a main motion?
To change the amount of time a person can argue their position.
What is ti limit or extend debate?
The minimum number of members who must be present to conduct busness.
what is a Quorum?
The legal record of a meeting.
What are minutes?
The person who conducts the meeting.
Who is the Chairman?
A motion to alter or modify the wording of a main motion.
What is an amendment?
To interrupt pending business so as to permit doing something else immediately.
What is to Lay on the Table?
One or more persons elected or appointed by an organization to consider, study, investigate, or take action on assigned matters.
What is a Committee?
The order of business that must be approved by the assembly.
What is an agenda?
The person responsible for taking the minutes?
Who is the Secretary?
The number of amendments to a main motion that can be considered.
What is two?
To schedule a discussion of a business item at a specific time in the future.
What is to Postpone to a certain time?
Minutes, Reports, Unfinished Business, New Business
What is the Simplified Standard Order of Business?
Governing document of an organization.
What are bylaws?
An independent or autonomous group of people meeting to determine, in full and free discussion, coursed of action to take in the name of the entire group.
What is a deliberative assembly?
To have a group study an issue and make a recommendation to the assembly.
What is to commit/refer to a committee?
A motion to "kill" a piece of business.
What is Postpone Indefinitely?
A way to process business for routine matters with no opposition.
What is Unanimous Consent?
A written guide of the business meeting that the Chair uses to help conduct business.
What is a script?
Experts in the rules of parliamentary procedures.
What are parliamentarians?
To vote on ending debate.
What is the to move the previous question?
To bring a meeting back in line with the Agenda.
What is Call for the Orders of the Day?
a discussion of the pros and cons of a motion
What is debate?