# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S489
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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5-18A

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5-20
5-21A

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5-38A

5-39
5-404

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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

PAGE

To Revise Bylaws Re Clergy and Teacher
Rosters
To Recognize the Role of Women in the Teach-
ing Ministry
(Also 5-18B, C)
To Receive Women Teachers as Teacher Mem-
bers
To Give Equal Status to Women Teachers __—
To Grant Voting Rights to All Professional
Church Workers
(Also 5-21B, C)
To Grant Right to Vote to Retired Pastors —_
To Permit Installed Lay Ministers to Serve as
Voting Delegates
To Grant Wider Enfranchisement in the Synod
(Also 5-24B)
To Grant Voting Rights to Teachers
(Also 5-25B)
To Study Voting Structure
(Also 5-27)
To Return to Former System of Electing Dele-
gates
To Place Geographical Limits on Delegate Cir-
cuit
To Require Companion Circuit Device for Con-
vention Representation -
To Revise Procedure Order for Electing Dele-

gates

To Provide for Substitute at Circuit “Election
Meetings

To Permit District Board of Directors to Make
Exceptions

To Revise the Delegate Procedure —_.
To Reduce Number of Synodical Convention
Delegates
To Study Proposal That Representation Reflect
Number of Communicants ee

(Also 5-36B, C)
To Revise Basis for District Convention Rep-
resentation —
To Allow All Congregations Lay y Delegates to
District Conventions —_-_..

(Also 5-38B)
To Clarify Synodical Bylaw 1.57 ___._. _____
To Eliminate Double Representation by Pro-
fessors

(Also 5-40B)
To Limit Delegates from Educational Institu-
tions
To Elect Teacher Delegates at Conferences In-
stead of District Conventions ee
To Grant Speaking Privileges to Youth Dele-
gates — -
To Rescind Right of Pastoral Conferences to
Memorialize
To Revise Procedure for Appointment of Con-
vention Committees -_—
To Clarify “All Matters of ‘Doctrine and of
Conscience Shall Be Decided Only by the Word
of God.” -
To Declare Resolutions ‘Binding oe
To Amend Nomination Procedure -_____
To Improve New Procedures for Nominating
President and First Vice-President of Synod —
To Include Incumbents Automatically in Nom-
inating Procedure for President and First Vice-
President
To Amend Procedure for Preconvention Nom-
inations - _ ae
To Amend Consent Requirements ce
To Eliminate or Amend Bylaw 2.127 e _.
To Study Ways of Electing Vice-Presidents and
of Involving District Presidents in All Affairs

(Also 5-54B)
To Improve Election Procedures —._.._____ a
To Reveal Tallies —

(Also 5-56B, C)
To Remove the Ministers Limitation Clause —
To Limit Terms of Elected Officers ~

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5-69A
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5-TTA

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P.

To Request Regulations Change Re District
Secretary
To Appoint Committee to Define Responsibili-
ties and Authority of President —~—___—
To Define Power of President
To Clarify Representative
Synod
To Study Office of District President —____
To Provide That Synodical Policy Decisions
Be Made only by Synodically Elected Officers
of Synod
To Emphasize Supervisory Duties of Synodical
President
(Also 5-64B, C, D, E, F)
To Include Administrative Role of Council of
Presidents in Handbook
To Make Council of Presidents Supervisory
Agency
To Enhance Council of Presidents ———_-__-__
To Establish Procedures for Implementing Col-
legiality
To Affirm Collegiality
(Also 5-69B, C)
To Require President and Vice-Presidents to
Counsel with District Presidents —— ~~ __
To Obligate President to Seek Advice of Dis-
trict Presidents
To Make More Explicit the Traditional Au-
thority of President
To Declare Council of Presidents Only Ad-
visory
(Also 5- 73B, C, D)
To Call upon District Presidents to Support
Synodical President
(Also 5-74B, C, D, E, F)
To Censure All District Presidents Who Do Not
Manifest Loyalty to Synodica] Constitution —.
To Censure Council of Presidents
(Also 5-76B, C, D, E, F, G)
To Instruct Council of Presidents to Recognize
Limits of Its Authority _—
(Also 5-77B)
To Provide for Synodical Convention to Elect
All District Presidents
To Elect District Presidents by Synod in Con-
vention
To Amend Bylaws Re Pastor and Teacher Con-
ferences
To Discourage Lawsuits
To Restructure Commission on Constitutional
Matters
(Also 5-82B)
To Elect Commission on Constitutional Matters
(Also 5-83B)

To Elect All Members of Commission on Con-
stitutional Matters
(Also 5-84B)

To Restructure CCM
(Also 5-85B)
To Publish Opinions and Interpretations of the
CCM _
(Also 5-86B, C)
To Limit Binding Nature of CCM Opinions —
(Also 5-87B)
To Introduce New Method of Interpreting Syn-
odical Resolutions
To Reassign Interpretation of Resolutions to
Council of Presidents
To Overrule CCM Opinion on n Presidential Au-
thority
To Elect All Members of Board for Higher
Education at This Time
(Also 5-91B)
To Reinterpret Bylaw 6.53 (Prior Consent of
BHE)
To Revise Constitution and Bylaws to Give
Equal Opportunity to Women —___
(Also 5-93B)

Government in