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  2. Principles of parliamentary procedure - Wikipedia

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    Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies. General principles of parliamentary procedure include rule of the majority with respect for the minority.

  3. Robert's Rules of Order - Wikipedia

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    Henry M. Robert. A U.S. Army officer, Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923), saw a need for a standard of parliamentary procedure while living in San Francisco.He found San Francisco in the mid-to-late 19th century to be a chaotic place where meetings of any kind tended to be tumultuous, with little consistency of procedure and with people of many nationalities and traditions thrown together.

  4. List of motions - Wikipedia

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    The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC) Postpone temporarily, or table; Close debate; Limit or extend debate; Postpone to a certain time; Refer to committee; Amend; Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure (Demeter) Lay on the table; Previous question; Limit or extend debate; Postpone to a definite time; Refer to a ...

  5. Parliamentary procedure - Wikipedia

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    In the United States terms used are parliamentary law, parliamentary practice, legislative procedure, rules of order, or Robert's rules of order. [2] Rules of order consist of rules written by the body itself (often referred to as bylaws), usually supplemented by a published parliamentary authority adopted by the body.

  6. History of parliamentary procedure - Wikipedia

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    British parliamentary procedures were carried over to the American colonies and became the foundations of legislative procedure in the U.S. states. Jefferson's Manual , published in 1801, recognized indebtedness to John Hatsell 's Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons . [ 6 ]

  7. Voting methods in deliberative assemblies - Wikipedia

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    Deliberative assemblies – bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions – use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by members of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action). The regular methods of voting in such bodies are a voice vote, a rising vote, and a show of hands.

  8. Objection to the consideration of a question - Wikipedia

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    In parliamentary procedure, an objection to the consideration of a question is a motion that is adopted to prevent an original main motion from coming before the assembly. This motion is different from an objection to a unanimous consent request.

  9. Special rules of order - Wikipedia

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    The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC), refer to these types of rules as "standing rules", and do not require a simple majority vote without previous notice. [2] One of the most common types of these rules is the rule to set limits on the amount of time, or the number of times, a member may speak in debate or to prohibit some type ...