Excerpt from Parliamentary Law: Method of Transacting Business in Deliberative Assemblies, Uses of the Various Motions, Method of Conducting Elections, the Duties of Members and Officers, Discipline, Model by-Laws, Forms, and Definitions of Parliamentary TermsMain Motions. A main motion' is one that introduces a sub jcet to the assembly for its consideration and action. Since only one subject can be considered at a time, no main motion can be made while another motion is before the assembly. All main mo tions are debatable and amendable. They are fully explained in the next chapter.Subsidiary Motions. Sometimes another motion is necessary or desirable in order to dispose properly of a main motion. Mo tions that help to dispose of a main motion are called Subsidiary Motions. They may be made when the main motion is pending, and when stated by the chair they supersede the main motion and become the immediately pending question. Subsidiary motions are used when the assembly wishes to change the wording of a main question by means of an amendment, to refer a main ques tion to a committee for consideration and recommendation, to postpone action on it to another time, to limit or close the de bate, to extend the limits of debate, or to lay the main question aside temporarily when something of greater urgency may require the attention of the assembly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.