Sublime

have to commit yourself to the manifesto your party has adopted, usually somewhere along a spectrum that ranges, in Macaulay’s language, from reckless empiricism at one end to ignorant bigotry at the other. Or to put it in more temperate language, between those who find change and experiment seductive and those who find it repellent, the old tensio

He instructed Majority Leader Robinson to accept whatever changes were necessary. If a senator’s support could be obtained by adding his amendment, he said, add it. The resulting bill, said one Washington observer, “sought to legalize almost anything anybody could think up.”

The Process of Amending an Amendment FIRST VOTE ON The amendment to the amendment (the secondary amendment). NEXT VOTE ON The original amendment (the primary amendment). FINALLY VOTE ON

Remember the Kenneth Blanchard adage: “Our amends are made in changed behavior.”

An amendment may also be amended. The first amendment is called a primary amendment and the amendment to the amendment is called a secondary amendment. Only two amendments may be pending at any one time. In other words, an amendment to an amendment to an amendment is not in order; otherwise, the group would become hopelessly confused.

friendly amendment may be defined as a change in the wording that enhances and strengthens the original motion. When such a change is proposed and no one objects, the amendment may be adopted by general consent.

At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; but nobody talks about repeal.