Portal:Parliamentary Procedure

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Parliamentary Procedure

Parliamentary procedure is the set of rules, usages, ethics, and customs governing a deliberative assembly. It is a tiny section of common law descendent from the practices of the British House of Commons in Parliament from which it derives its name. In the United States it is also commonly called parliamentary law, parliamentary practice, legislative procedure, or rules of order. In Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other English speaking countries it is often referred to as chairmanship, chairing, the law of meetings, procedure at meetings, the conduct of meetings and various combinations of these phrases. At its heart is the rule of the majority with respect for the minority. It's object is to allow deliberation upon questions of interest to the organization and to arrive at the sense or the will of the assembly upon these questions. Parliamentary procedure is used in organizations of self-governing people to conduct debate with the least possible friction in order to as efficiently as possible make group decisions. These decisions are usually determined by voting.

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RONR Motions

A motion, in parliamentary procedure, is a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action. The numerous types of motions include those that bring new business before the assembly as well as numerous other motions to take procedural steps or carry out other purposes relating either to a pending motion or the body itself. Motions are grouped into different classes to facilitate learning and understanding their use.

List of motions Class:Main motion Incidental main motion Objection to the consideration of a question Class: Subsidiary motion Amend Postpone indefinitely Commit or Refer Limit or extend limits of debate Postpone indefinitely Postpone to a certain time Previous question Lay on the Table

Class: Privileged motion Call for the orders of the day Raise a question of privilege Recess Adjourn Fix the time to which to adjourn Class: Motion that brings a question again before the assembly Reconsider Reconsider and enter on the minutes Rescind or amend something previously adopted Discharge a committee

Class: Incidental motion Appeal Suspend the rules Parliamentary inquiry Point of information Point of order Request for any other privilege Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion Request to be excused from a duty Request to read papers Requests and inquiries Division of a question Consideration by paragraph or seriatim Rescind and expunge from the minutes

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Miscellaneous Motions and Concepts

Motions relating to nominations Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls Division Censure Declare the chair vacant

Dilatory motions and tactics Hoist Reading (legislature) Adjournment sine die Strategic use of motions In order when another has the floor Second

Voting methods Vote required Signed ballot Unanimous consent

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Parliamentary Authorities

A Parliamentary authority is a manual on parliamentary law, containing rules of order for the transaction of business in deliberative assemblies. The society generally adopts such a book to cover meeting procedure not covered in the society's adopted procedural rules.

Parliamentary authority Bibliography of Parliamentary Procedure Henry Martyn Robert Robert's Rules of Order Alice Sturgis The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure George Demeter Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure Riddick's Rules of Procedure Tilson's Manual Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms Fundamentals of Parliamentary Law and Procedure Bourinot's Rules of Order Lex Parliamentaria

RONR 2000 (10th) Demeter's Manual 1969 TSC 2000 (4th) Mason's Manual 2000