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SECONDARY AMENDMENTS
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secondary amendment to strike out certain words from a primary amendment to strike out words? Illustrate.

(5) What methods may be employed in amending a primary amendment to strike out a paragraph?

(6) Given a primary amendment to strike out and insert: what must be done before the words to be inserted may be amended?

(7) What is the process necessary for amending a substitute? Can a secondary amendment be amended?

(8) Give an illustration of your own to show that striking out a word from a primary amendment to strike out words leaves in the resolution the words struck out by the secondary amendment.

(9) In the case of the motion to substitute one paragraph for another, what is the effect of striking out words in the original paragraph if the motion to substitute is lost?

(10) In the last illustration in the text, assume that both the primary and the secondary amendments are lost. Give in full the chair's part in stating the question on the secondary amendment, the primary amendment, and the resolution.