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Parli Pro is a shortened name for the National FFA Organization Parliamentary Procedure Career Development Event.. The FFA Parliamentary Procedure Contest is based on a two-part demonstration of parliamentary procedure knowledge, a knowledge test, and an 8 to 10 minute, depending on the state, demonstration of parliamentary law.
If a member feels that an original main motion should not be considered, an objection to the consideration of a question could be made. [1] It is often used to prevent an embarrassing question from being introduced and debated in the assembly.
It can also be used by opponents of a main motion to test whether they have the votes needed to defeat the main motion, without risking a direct vote. [3] If the motion to postpone indefinitely is defeated, direct consideration of the main motion is resumed, and opponents of the motion may then determine whether to continue in their effort to ...
The term parliamentary procedure gets its name from its use in the parliamentary system of government. [3]In the 16th and 17th century, the parliaments of England began adopting rules of order. [4]
When a motion has been made and is before the assembly, the process of debate could help the assembly determine whether to take action on the proposal. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR) says, "Debate, rightly understood, is an essential element in the making of rational decisions of consequence by intelligent people."
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 include legislative motions, budgetary motions, supplementary budgetary motions, and petitionary motions.
In Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), questions of privilege affecting the assembly may include matters of comfort, amplification, or safety. [2] For example, it may be difficult to hear the speaker.
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.