Parliamentary Procedure
The statement one says when they need to leave the room during committee
What is a Point of Personal Privilege?
What is General Assembly?
This is what allows the committee session to begin
What is a Motion to Open Debate?
A person who significantly contributed to a resolution will want to be this, a key step to winning an award, and possibly THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to do as a delegate
What is a Sponsor?
The person who wins Best Delegate will generally receive this
What is a gavel?
A delegate says this when they have a question
What is a Point of Inquiry?
This person is in charge of a committee and oversees all of the delegates
Who is the Chair?
This type of caucus does not require anything besides a time (i.e. no topic or speaking time)
What is an Unmoderated Caucus?
This part of a resolution simply lists the topics that will be discussed and have solutions proposed for
What are Preambulatory Clauses?
This type of website can be a great (but often biased) source for research on your country
What is a .gov or government website?
If a delegate has been directly named (by country name, not real name) in another delegate's speech, they are allowed to do this
What is a Right of Reply?
In a crisis committee, delegates write these instead of resolutions
What are Directives?
Once a bloc has finished drafting their resolution, they will make this motion
What is a motion to introduce working papers?
This group of delegates will present their resolution to the committee and answer questions
What is the Author's Panel?
These are the first and last things that occur at any conference
What are Opening and Closing Ceremonies?
A delegate says this when they believe there has been a mistake in the procedure of the committee
This committee is a mixture of the procedures and structure of two other committees
What is a Specialized Committee?
In a moderated caucus, only this person will be able to decide when they will speak
Who is the person who proposed the moderated caucus?
Operative Clauses will have subclauses, denoted by letters, and often further subclauses within those subclauses, denoted by these symbols
What are Roman Numerals?
This type of award is usually only offered in larger committees, and is not always offered in those
What is a Verbal Commendation?
A delegate generally says this at the beginning of each speech
What is Honorable Chair(s) and Fellow Delegates?
What is AdHoc?
When all proposed motions fail, this will happen
What is Returning to Speaker's List?
When a delegate wishes to make a change to a resolution that has been presented but not yet voted on, they propose these
What are Amendments?
This is the dress code for conferences
What is Western Business Attire?