In parliamentary procedure, a motion is a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take a particular action. These may...

Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. Their object is to allow orderly...

Debate in parliamentary procedure refers to discussion on the merits of a pending question; that is, whether it should or should not be agreed to. It...

Look up table in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In parliamentary procedure, the verb to table has the opposite meaning in the United States from that...

(1969). Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure, Blue Book, p. 146 Keesey, Ray E. (1974). Modern Parliamentary Procedure. Houghton Mifflin. p. 31...

In parliamentary procedure, reconsideration of a motion (or reconsideration of a question) may be done on a matter previously decided. The motion to "reconsider"...

In parliamentary procedure, an adjournment ends a meeting. It could be done using a motion to adjourn. A time for another meeting could be set using the...

Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies...

Mover or movers may refer to: Motion (parliamentary procedure), in parliamentary procedure, the person who introduces a motion Moving company, a service which...

a guillotine, is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. The cloture procedure originated in the French...

In parliamentary procedure, the motion to amend is used to modify another motion. An amendment could itself be amended. A related procedure is filling...

In United States parliamentary procedure, recognition, or assignment of the floor, is the exclusive right to be heard at that time by a member of a deliberative...

A motion to vacate the chair or motion to declare the chair vacant, commonly shortened to motion to vacate, is a procedure in which a member of a legislative...

In parliamentary procedure, requests and inquiries are motions used by members of a deliberative assembly to obtain information or to do or have something...

report. In parliamentary procedure, the motion to commit (or refer) is used to refer another motion—usually a main motion—to a committee. A motion to commit...

of the above items. A call for the orders of the day, in parliamentary procedure, is a motion to require a deliberative assembly to conform to its agenda...

Private bill Right of initiative (legislative) Motion (parliamentary procedure) Table (parliamentary procedure), which has a different meaning in the US compared...

In United States parliamentary procedure, a suspension of the rules allows a deliberative assembly to set aside its normal rules to do something that...

Order, often simply referred to as Robert's Rules, is a manual of parliamentary procedure by U.S. Army officer Henry Martyn Robert. "The object of Rules...

February 1881)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 3 February 1881. "THE NEW RULES OF PROCEDURE. (Hansard, 24 February 1885)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)...

According to Robert's Rules of Order, a widely used guide to parliamentary procedure, a meeting is a gathering of a group of people to make decisions...

constitutional procedure at hand, a snap election. On the other hand, censure is a non-constitutionally-binding expression of disapproval; a motion of censure...

In US parliamentary procedure, the previous question (also known as "calling for the question", "calling the question", "close debate", "calling for a...

In parliamentary procedure, a recess refers to a short intermission in a meeting of a deliberative assembly. The members may leave the meeting room, but...

savings provisions within the Interpretation Act 1978. In parliamentary procedure, the motion to rescind, repeal, or annul is used to cancel or countermand...

mini-budget and a disorganised vote in the House of Commons over a parliamentary motion to ban fracking, ultimately resulting in the loss of support of Conservative...

In parliamentary procedure, a point of order occurs when someone draws attention to a rules violation in a meeting of a deliberative assembly. In Robert's...

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...

Recess is a general term for a period in which a group of people are temporarily dismissed from their duties. In education, recess is the American and...

In parliamentary procedure, a motion to appeal from the decision of the chair is used to challenge a ruling of the chair. The most common occasions for...