Motions in Action

The Ranking Motion Chart

This is a basic handout that allows a Chairperson, Officer, or Parliamentarian to see all the basic motions, their ranks, and their basic 7 characteristics: Recognition Required, Second Required, Interruptible, Debatable, Amendable, Reconsider-able, Required Vote.

The Chart works from the bottom up

The Main Motion is #1 and everything above it ranks above it. So any motion above can supersede the Main Motion and each higher motion supersedes those below it. Incidental Motions below the Main Motion outranks the upper 13 motions. And Bring Back Motions have special purposes that may or may not allow them to handle business.

Rules are based on the regard for rights:
of the majority,
of the minority, especially a strong minority - greater than one-third,
of individual members,
of absentees, and
of all these together.

Under the rules of parliamentary law, a deliberative body is a free agent -- free to do what it wants to do with the greatest measure of protection to itself and of consideration of the rights of its members.

The Ranking Motion Chart

The Chart works from the bottom up

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