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Question 1: What is a subsidiary motion?
Answer:
A motion that assists the assembly in treating or disposing of a main (and sometimes other) motion. (i.e.Lay on the Table, Postpone Indefinitely, Amend)
Question 2: What are special orders?
Answer:
Important business previously designated for consideration at the current meeting
Question 3: What are the four types of motions?
Answer:
Main, subsidiary, incidental, and privileged.
Question 4: What is typically true of motions that require a 2/3 vote?
Answer:
They limit the rights of the members (close debate, limit debate, etc.)
Question 5: What is a longer main motion usually made in written form?
Answer:
Resolution Question 6: What motion allows a main motion to be considered again later in the same meeting or in another meeting?
Answer:
Postpone Definitely/Postpone to a Certain Time/Postpone
Question 7: What motion alters a main motion so that it becomes more suitable?
Answer:
Amend
Question 8: When can a main motion not be made?
Answer:
When any other motion is on the floor.
Question 9: How can an assembly set aside the orders of the day?
Answer:
By voting 2/3 negative on a Call for the Orders of the Day.
Question 10: What is an incidental motion?
Answer:
A motion that is usually related to the pending business and must be decided immediately. (i.e. Point of Order, Appeal, Requests and Inquiries)
Question 11: What are the five methods of voting on a motion?
Answer:
Voice, roll call, general consent, division (standing), and ballot
Question 12: What happens if a motion is not immediately seconded?
Answer:
The chair calls for a second.
Question 13: What is a Call for the Orders of the Day?
Answer:
A request by a single member that a previously adopted agenda or schedule be followed (if he/she believes it is not).
Question 14: What 3 subsidiary motions cannot be amended?
Answer:
Previous Question, Lay on the Table, and Postpone Indefinitely
Question 15: Can a motion to Recess be made when business is pending?
Answer:
Yes (it is a privileged motion)
Question 16: What is a privileged motion?
Answer:
A motion that does not relate to pending business but has to do with matters of immediate and overriding importance.
Question 17: Which of the following is a privileged motion?
Answer:
Raise a Question of Privilege
Question 18: What is a motion to Consider by Paragraph?
Answer:
A request that a lengthy main motion or resolution be handled by opening each section or paragraph to amendment one at a time (Incidental).
Question 19: What is the 2nd highest ranking motion in parliamentary procedure?
Answer:
Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn
Question 20: Which of the following is a privileged motion?
Answer:
Adjourn
Question 21: When can the maker of a motion speak a second time on the motion?
Answer:
After all other members have spoken or if called upon by the chair.
Question 22: Motions should always be stated in the...
Answer:
affirmative
Question 23: Define motion.
Answer:
A proposal that the entire membership take action or a stand on an issue.
Question 24: What motion modifies the amount of debate made on a main motion?
Answer:
Limit or Extend Limits of Debate
Question 25: What is a Question of Privilege?
Answer:
An urgent request or motion to correct a pressing matter that is affecting the right or privilege of an individual member (Privileged).
Question 26: What motion is used to dispose of a question by direct vote?
Answer:
Postpone Indefinitely
Question 27: How does a member obtain the floor?
Answer:
When no one else is speaking, rise and address the chair.
Question 28: Give a basic example of an order of business.
Answer:
Call to order(optional, not actually business), roll call of members present, reading of minutes of last meeting, officer's reports, committee reports, special orders, unfinished business, new business, announcements, adjournment.