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Friday, July 12, 2013
The next chapter in our journey
Hey everyone! For this week use this post for all debate and discussion on Chapters 3 & 4 from Robert's Rules of Order. We had some nice discussion before, lets keep it up!
Three things struck me as confusing or interesting for this... 1. The exceptions to the order of precedence was really confusing. 2. What's the difference between incidental main motions and incidental motions? 3. I think it would sound really cool if we called question of privilege to be in executive session. It'd really show off our knowledge.
Hey this is answering your second question. I always got confused with it also. Incidental motions are a class of motions, we call them the popcorn motions but also we use the acronym POW PADDS for them. Incidental main motions are motions from any class of motions (look in the reading for more specifics) that come up when no business is pending. So an example of a incidental main motion could be recess, just as long as there is no other business on the table. Hope that helped! :)
I was confused at the ranking of motions. Fix time at which to adjourn is the highest ranking motion but you can amend it. If the ammendment would take precedence over fix then wouldn't ammend be the highest ranking motion?
This is kind of what I was consfused about but I think what it means is if the assembly decides to amend Fix time at which to adjourn, then amends precedence would be changed so that it ranks higher than the motion being amended, therefore the amendement of the motion would be dealt with before the motion itself.
In chapter 3 on page 65 lines 20-29 I was really confused. It states and example for a subsidiary motion being amended and how amend's precedence is modified so it ranks higher than the motion being amended, but the example made no sense to me at all.
Something I found cool from chapter 4 was renewing motions. If a motion was disposed of, at a later session the motion can be renewed unless it has come over from the previous session.
One thing I thought was super duper interesting was from chapter 3 on page 66 it states under Incidental Main Motions Corresponding to Subsidiary motions that "For each of the first five subsidiary motions(with out previous question and Lay on the Table) there is a corresponding incidental main motion of the same name that can be made when no other motion is pending". I read this and all I could think about is this a question that we could here during the questioning round of our competition! PS. Is there a quiz this week. I looked all over for it on edmodo and couldn't find it!
Three things struck me as confusing or interesting for this...
ReplyDelete1. The exceptions to the order of precedence was really confusing.
2. What's the difference between incidental main motions and incidental motions?
3. I think it would sound really cool if we called question of privilege to be in executive session. It'd really show off our knowledge.
Hey this is answering your second question. I always got confused with it also. Incidental motions are a class of motions, we call them the popcorn motions but also we use the acronym POW PADDS for them. Incidental main motions are motions from any class of motions (look in the reading for more specifics) that come up when no business is pending.
DeleteSo an example of a incidental main motion could be recess, just as long as there is no other business on the table. Hope that helped! :)
I was confused at the ranking of motions. Fix time at which to adjourn is the highest ranking motion but you can amend it. If the ammendment would take precedence over fix then wouldn't ammend be the highest ranking motion?
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of what I was consfused about but I think what it means is if the assembly decides to amend Fix time at which to adjourn, then amends precedence would be changed so that it ranks higher than the motion being amended, therefore the amendement of the motion would be dealt with before the motion itself.
DeleteIn chapter 3 on page 65 lines 20-29 I was really confused. It states and example for a subsidiary motion being amended and how amend's precedence is modified so it ranks higher than the motion being amended, but the example made no sense to me at all.
ReplyDeleteSomething I found cool from chapter 4 was renewing motions. If a motion was disposed of, at a later session the motion can be renewed unless it has come over from the previous session.
One thing I thought was super duper interesting was from chapter 3 on page 66 it states under Incidental Main Motions Corresponding to Subsidiary motions that "For each of the first five subsidiary motions(with out previous question and Lay on the Table) there is a corresponding incidental main motion of the same name that can be made when no other motion is pending". I read this and all I could think about is this a question that we could here during the questioning round of our competition!
ReplyDeletePS. Is there a quiz this week. I looked all over for it on edmodo and couldn't find it!