Osiris Fraternal Order

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:22 pm**

Temporary Rules of the Council of Scribes (Constitutional Convention) For the purposes of the drafting of a new constitution and other essential documents, the Council of Scribes of the Osiris Fraternal Order shall be called "the Constitutional Convention".

1.All individuals who have held citizenship on the official forum of the Osiris Fraternal Order before the establishment of the Constitutional Convention shall have a vote on all proposals.

2.Individuals who are granted citizenship during the Convention may sit in Convention without vote.

3.The Convention shall be administered by the Chief Scribe, who is appointed by the Pharaoh. In the absence of the Grand Scribe, the Pharaoh shall appoint a new Chief Scribe.

4.The Convention shall discuss proposals under the following categories for a minimum of seven (7) days:
a.constitution;
b.legal code;
c.electoral code;
d.other legislation deemed by the Chief Scribe to require immediate attention.

5.Any voting member may table proposals for each category.

6.After a minimum of seven days, the Convention shall vote on one (1) proposal in Categories A, B and C. The Convention may vote on multiple proposals as deemed necessary under Category D, so long as they are not contradictory to other proposals in any category.

7.In order for a proposal to be brought to a vote, a voting member may make a motion for a vote, with a minimum of two (2) other voting members seconding the motion and the Grand Scribe recognizing the motion for it to be valid.

8.All votes shall take place for three (3) days. Voting members may vote “aye”, “nay”, or “abstain”, or similar. Voting “abstain” does not count neither for nor against the proposal. All proposals require a simple majority (50%+1) of votes in order to pass.

9.If a Category A, B or C proposal fails to pass, the discussion period for that category shall last for a minimum of three (3) days. A proposal may be brought to a vote at any point after the minimum period of time, using the provisions under clause 7.

10. Following the passage of proposals in all categories, the Chief Scribe shall present the proposals to the Pharaoh for assent. The Pharaoh and Chief Scribe will declare the work of the Constitutional Convention to be complete.

11.In the absence of a rule listed in this document, the Chief Scribe shall have full authority to issue a ruling. The Chief Scribe may make amendments to this document as required.

Timeline of Constitutional Convention
Beginning of Discussion Period: 10:30 PM EDT, April 27, 2016.
Category A Vote: 7:30 PM EDT, May 6th, 2016 to 7:30 PM EDT, May 9th, 2016.
Category B Vote: TBA
Category C Vote: TBA
Other votes: TBA

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2016 9:09 am**

I believe these are good rules, and I move that the Council as well adopt the following rules.

Spoiler

Rule I: Standing of These Rules

Upon an affirmative vote from the Council of Scribes, and a subsequent affirmation from the Pharaoh, these rules, and any other rules added by the Council of Scribes unilaterally, shall be binding on the Council of Scribes as a continuing body pursuant to the rule of law. All institutions herein shall be respected and maintained unless this code is otherwise amended.

Rule II: Officers

1) The following officers, when used in these rules, shall be interpreted to mean and be elected as follows:

A. Governor – The head of government of Osiris, elected by three fifths the Scribes at the beginning of each session.

B. Scribes – Members of the Council of Scribes, every Osiran citizen thereof composing.

C. Parliamentarian – Any individual appointed by the Governor; whose duties are presiding over debate, enforcing the rules enumerated herein, recording the Journal, and controlling the queue of legislation.

Rule III: Meetings

1) Commencement of Meetings

A. The Parliamentarian having taken the chair, after the Parliamentarian, the Journal of the preceding session shall be read unless by nondebatable motion the reading shall be waived, the question being, "Shall the Journal stand approved to date?", and any mistake made in the entries corrected. Except as provided in subparagraph (1) the reading of the Journal shall not be suspended unless by unanimous consent; and when any motion shall be made to amend or correct the same, it shall be deemed a privileged question, and proceeded with until disposed of.

1. Whenever the Council is proceeding under cloture, the reading of the Journal shall be dispensed with and shall be considered approved to date.

2. The proceedings of the Council shall be briefly and accurately stated on the Journal. Messages of the Pharaoh in full; titles of bills and resolutions, and such parts as shall be affected by proposed amendments; every vote, and a brief statement of the contents of each petition, memorial, or paper presented to the Council, shall be entered.

B. When a Scribe desires to speak, they shall address the Parliamentarian. No Scribe shall speak more than twice upon any one question in debate on the same legislative meeting without leave of the Council, which shall be determined without debate.

C. No Scribe in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Scribe or to other Scribes any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Scribe.

D. If any Scribe, in speaking or otherwise, in the opinion of the Parliamentarian transgress the rules of the Council the Parliamentarian shall, either on their own motion or at the request of any other Scribe, call him to order; and when a Scribe shall be called to order they shall leave the chamber, and may not proceed to debate except upon motion that they be allowed to proceed in order, which motion shall be determined without debate. Any Scribe directed by the Parliamentarian to take their seat, and any Scribe requesting the Parliamentarian to require a Scribe to take their seat, may appeal from the ruling of the Chair, which appeal shall be open to debate.

E. A question of order may be raised at any stage of the proceedings, except when the Council is voting or ascertaining the presence of a quorum, and, unless submitted to the Council, shall be decided by the Parliamentarian without debate, subject to an appeal to the Council. When an appeal is taken, any subsequent question of order which may arise before the decision of such appeal shall be decided by the Parliamentarian without debate; and every appeal therefrom shall be decided at once, and without debate; and any appeal may be laid on the table without prejudice to the pending proposition, and thereupon shall be held as affirming the decision of the Parliamentarian. The Parliamentarian may submit any question of order for the decision of the Council.

2) Voting Procedure

A. When the yeas and nays are ordered, each Scribe shall, without debate, declare their assent or dissent to the question, unless excused by the Council; and no Scribe shall be permitted to vote after the decision shall have been announced by the Parliamentarian, but may for sufficient reasons, with unanimous consent, change or withdraw their vote. No motion to suspend this rule shall be in order, nor shall the Parliamentarian entertain any request to suspend it by unanimous consent.

3) Motions

A. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received but

1. To adjourn.

2. To adjourn to a day certain, or that when the Council adjourn it shall be to a day certain.

3. To take a recess.

4. To proceed to the consideration of executive business.

5. To lay on the table.

6. To postpone indefinitely.

7. To postpone to a day certain.

8. To commit.

9. To amend.

10. Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand arranged; and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a recess, to proceed to the consideration of executive business, to lay on the table, shall be decided without debate.

B. At any time a motion signed by three Scribes, to bring to a close the debate upon any measure, motion, other matter pending before the Council, or the unfinished business, is presented to the Council, the Parliamentarian, or clerk at the direction of the Parliamentarian, shall at once state the motion to the Council, and twenty-four hours after they shall lay the motion before the Council and order the yeas and nays:

"Is it the sense of the Council that the debate shall be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three fifths of the Scribes duly present and voting — except on a measure or motion to amend the Council rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be three fifths of the Scribes duly chosen and sworn — then said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Council, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of.

Thereafter no Scribes shall be entitled to speak in all more than once on the measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Council, or the unfinished business, the amendments thereto, and motions affecting the same. No dilatory motion, or dilatory amendment, or amendment not germane shall be in order. Points of order, including questions of relevancy, and appeals from the decision of the Parliamentarian, shall be decided without debate.

After no more than twenty-four hours of consideration of the measure, motion, or other matter on which cloture has been invoked, the Council shall proceed, without any further debate on any question, to vote on the final disposition thereof to the exclusion of all amendments not then actually pending before the Council at that time and to the exclusion of all motions, except a motion to table, or to reconsider and one quorum call on demand to establish the presence of a quorum (and motions required to establish a quorum) immediately before the final vote begins.

Rule IV: Legislation

1) Resolutions

A. The legislation of the Council shall be passed as resolutions.

B. Upon passing a vote of the Council, a resolution shall be presented before the Pharaoh, who shall sign or veto the resolution.

2) Amendments

A. An amendment and any instruction accompanying a motion to recommit shall be reduced to writing and read by the Scribe offering the amendment or instruction to the Parliamentarian before being debated.

B. A motion shall be reduced to writing, if desired by the Parliamentarian or by any Scribe, and shall be read before being debated.

C. Any motion, amendment, or resolution may be withdrawn or modified by the mover at any time before a decision, amendment, or ordering of the yeas and nays, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave.

D. If the question in debate contains several propositions, any Scribe may have the same divided, except a motion to strike out and insert, which shall not be divided; but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to strike out and insert a different proposition; nor shall it prevent a motion simply to strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion to strike out prevent a motion to strike out and insert. But pending a motion to strike out and insert, the part to be stricken out and the part to be inserted shall each be regarded for the purpose of amendment as a question, and motions to amend the part to be stricken out shall have precedence.

E. When an amendment proposed to any pending measure is laid on the table, it shall not carry with it, or prejudice, such measure.

F. It shall not be in order to consider any proposed committee amendment (other than a technical, clerical, or conforming amendment) which contains any significant matter not within the jurisdiction of the committee proposing such amendment.

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