Second (parliamentary Procedure) - Legislative Bodies

Legislative Bodies

Mason's Manual states that "Parliamentary practice in American governmental bodies does not require seconds to motions, and in Parliament itself, where the practice of seconding motions originated, they have not been required for more than a century."

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