Cornell Study Clubs 



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When it is desired to form a permanent society, those 

 Preliminary most interested in its organization usually meet before- 

 meeting to hand to draft a Constitution and recommend such 

 rules as will suit the society to be formed. If such a 

 preliminary meeting has been held, the committee 

 appointed at the next general meeting to draft a Con- 

 stitution and By-Laws may be instructed to report as 

 qmckly as possible. 



draft Con- 

 stitution and 

 By-Laws 



Model for 



report of 



committee 



The form for its report may be as follows: 



" Madam Chairman: Your committee appointed to 

 draft a Constitution and By-Laws, begs to submit the 

 following draft with the recommendation that it be 

 adopted as the Constitution and By-Laws of this club. 

 " Respectfully submitted, 



" Annie Jones, Chairman, 

 " Maria Lewis, Sarah Brown, Committee." 



Motion of 



chairman 



of committee 



The chairman of the committee, before she takes her 

 seat, says: 



" Madam Chairman: I move that the Constitution 



and By-Laws recommended by the committee be adopted. ' ' 



Her motion is seconded; then the chairman of the club 



says: 



" It has been moved and seconded that the Constitution and By-Laws 



recommended by the committee be adopted." 



How to vote 



on the 

 Constitution 



The Constitution is open for amendments and disais- 

 sion. Therefore, it is the duty of the chairman to read 

 the first Article of the Constitution and ask if there 

 are any amendments proposed to it. If there are none, 

 she should not take the vote on the adoption of that 

 first Article separately, for the reason that the Constitution, though 

 made up of many parts, represents but one individual instrument; con- 

 sequently, it would be as much out of order to adopt one of its Articles 

 separately as it would be to adopt individually a paragraph of a reso- 

 lution. Hence, the chairman shoiild proceed to read the second Article, 

 not forgetting to ask whether any amendments are to be made to it. 

 If any amendments are proposed they should be voted on, and, if adopted, 

 incorporated in the Article itself. But the Article, even after it is amended, 

 is not voted on, for the reason that the Constitution forms one instru- 

 ment and must be voted on as a whole. 



