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PRINCIPLES OF DEBATE
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allow any more delay in putting the question than he feels is helpful to the business.

The following lists of motions that open the main question to debate, and of those that are undebatable, are made in accordance with the above principles:

Motions That Open the Main Question to Debate.

Postpone Indefinitely 34

Reconsider a Debatable Question 36

Rescind 37

Ratify 39

Undebatable Motions.

Fix the Time to which to Adjourn (when a privileged question) 16

Adjourn (when unqualified in an assembly that has provided for future meetings) 17

Take a Recess (when privileged) 18

Call for the Orders of the Day, and questions relating to priority of business 20

Appeal when made while an undebatable question is pending, or when simply relating to indecorum, or transgression of the rules of speaking, or to priority of business 21

Suspension of the Rules 22

Objection to the Consideration of a Question. 23

Incidental Motions, except an Appeal as shown above in this list under Appeal 13

Lay on the Table 28

Previous Question [29] and Motions to Close, Limit, or Extend the Limits of Debate 30

Amend an Undebatable Motion 33

Reconsider an Undebatable Motion 36