# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1979_S56
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MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION

While any voting delegate may call the question at
any time, after every 30 minutes of debate on any
one motion there shall be an automatic call of the
question by the chair.

Instead of only a voice vote on motions before the
convention, the chair shall ordinarily also cali for
the raising of the right hand.

If a substitute motion is offered, the convention
shall first decide by majority vote whether or not to
consider the substitute. If the decision is in the
affirmative and the substitute motion is adopted,
the original motion falls; if the substitute motion
does not receive favorable action either to consider
or to adopt, the original motion is again before the
house. (This is the so-called ‘‘Behnken rule” for
dealing with substitute motions.)

Questions of privilege shall be addressed in writing
to the chair, or its appointee, instead of consuming
convention time.

In the sessions of the last two days the President
shall have the privilege of calling up for action
resolutions which in his judgment must be acted
upon by the convention before adjournment.
Resolutions prepared by the floor committee which

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are not acted upon by the convention before adjourn-
ment die. The subject matter may be reintroduced at
the next convention by means of an overture.
Minutes shall be distributed every morning in
Today’s Business. The first item of business in the
afternoon session shall be the formal approval of
these minutes. However, at that time only correc-
tions involving convention action shall be offered
from the floor for consideration. Simple editorial
corrections involving, for example, misspelling of
names and faulty titles and references shall be
submitted in writing to the Secretary for incorpora-
tion in the minutes after verification. (This stand-
ing rule was introduced during the Milwaukee
convention and has been in use since.)

The preface, preambles, and whereas sections shall
be considered an integral part of the resolution,
overture, and/or memorial, and as such subject to
the same serious consideration and adoption in all
its parts as the main motion itself.

Unless covered by these standing rules of the
convention, parliamentary procedure shall be gov-
erned by Robert’s Rules of Order, newly revised
(1970 edition).