Rules for the Majority and Minority

Mason's Manuals

Learn how to navigate and apply Mason’s Manual in legislative settings. This course covers floor debate, motions, decorum, minority rights, and the parliamentary procedures legislators, staff, and activists need to advance their goals effectively.

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Course Curriculum

    1. Introduction

    2. Precedents of Authority

    3. Role of the Majority

    4. Majority Authority and Responsibility

    5. Managing Debate

    6. Handling a Minority

    7. Maintaining Chamber Legitimacy

    8. Case Study #1

    9. Minority Delay Tactics

    10. Dilatory Motions

    11. Appeals

    12. Quorum Tactics

    13. Managing "Amendment Floods"

    14. Questions of Privilege

    15. Preventing Strategic Disorder

    16. Case Study #2

    17. Previous Question

    18. Special Orders

    19. Managing Amendments

    20. Tabling Motions

    21. High Vote Motions

    22. Case Study #3

    23. Case Study #4

    24. Responsibilities of a Supermajority

    25. Supermajority Case Study

    26. Protecting the Record

    27. Committee Reports

    28. Documenting Fairness

    29. Case Study #6

    30. Final Thoughts

    1. Introduction

    2. Hierarchy of Authority

    3. Rights of the Minority

    4. Limits on the Majority

    5. Super Minority Strategies

    6. Core Procedural Toolkit

    7. Previous Question

    8. Lay on the Table

    9. Postpone

    10. Refer/Recommit

    11. Points of Order and Appeals

    12. Committee and Quorum Tactics

    13. Quorum Tools

    14. Committee Hearings and Records

    15. Calendar Control

    16. Amendments

    17. Weaponizing Amendments

    18. Amendments to Amendments

    19. Poison Pill Amendments

    20. Super Minority Playbook

    21. Protecting the Record Pt.1

    22. Drafting Amendments

    23. Protecting the Record Pt.2

    24. Ethical Guardrails

About this course

  • $15.00
  • 54 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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