These questions
"The meeting will come to order."
What does the chairman say to start the meeting?
Bylaws
What are the basic rules relating to the organization, usually written in a document.
Parliamentary procedure
What are the processes through which an organization, large or small, can work out satisfactory solutions to the greatest number of questions in the least amount of time? What makes meetings go smoothly when everyone is in agreement, and allows the group to come to decisions when issues are bitterly divided? What are the tradition of rules and customs for fair interactions and decision making in groups?
I move to postpone indefinitely
What do you say if an embarrassing motion has been brought before the assembly and a member wants to get rid of the question without bringing it to a direct vote?
Privileged motion
What is a motion that does not relate to the pending business, but has to do with special matters of immediate and overriding importance which, without debate, should be allowed to interrupt the consideration of anything else.
Adjournment
What is the term for ending a meeting?
Sets forth the name and object of the society and whatever other information is needed to incorporate the society in a state. State laws require this.
What is Corporate Charter?
Robert's Rules of Order
What is the name of the book that is used to guide parliamentary procedure?
I move to amend...
What do you say to make a proposal to change the wording of a main motion?
Incidental motions
What are motions that relate to the pending business?
The invocation, singing of the national anthem and/or Pledge of Allegiance are in this section of a meeting.
What happens in the Opening Ceremonies or Opening Exercises of a meeting?
A group that is not officially organized, meeting for a specific purpose.
What is a mass meeting?
To have a chance to fully and freely present their side of the case, but having failed to win a majority to their view, to gracefully submit and recognize the action as that of the entire organization, and to cheerfully assist in carrying it out, until they can secure its repeal.
What is the job of the minority in parliamentary procedure?
I move to limit debate by requiring the speaker only be allowed 4 minutes to present their views.
What to say when you want to place a limit on debate because it is taking too much time to debate the motion.
Appeal
What is an incidental motion that can be done after a chair has made a decision that any two members can move and second to require him or her to submit the matter to a vote of the assemble?
The reading and approval of minutes from the previous meeting.
What is the secretary's job during a meeting?
A group of elected or appointed officers who meet to carry out the business of their organization.
What is a board?
Henry Martyn Robert
Who wrote Robert's Rules of Order?
I move to lay on the table
What do you say when you want to lay the motion aside temporarily without setting a time for resuming its consideration, but with the provision that it can be taken up again whenever a majority decides?
I move for a division of question
What do you say if a pending main motion contains two or more parts capable of standing as separate questions?
Call to Order
Opening Ceremonies or Opening Exercises
Reading and Approval of Minutes
Reports
Unfinished Business
New Business
Adjournment
What is the order of business in a meeting?
A constitutionally elected group of representatives who meet to pass laws--such as Congress or a state legislature.
What is a legislative body?
Deliberative assemblies
What are the groups that meet to consider and decide on actions to be taken?
I move the previous question
What you say to close debate of a pending motion so that it will come to an immediate vote.
I move to suspend the rules
What do you say when it is desired that the assembly take up a question or do something that would be in violation of a rule that applies?