Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Amendment of an Amendment
AMENDMENT OF AN AMENDMENT.
112. When an amendment is offered and the amendment is not satisfactory the amendment may be amended by moving an amendment to the amendment; but in order to avoid confusion and to facilitate business there must be some limit to the number of pending amendments. Therefore, practice has placed this limit at one primary amendment and one secondary amendment (or amendment of the amendment). If, however, after the secondary amendment has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, or after the amendment has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, other amendments would be in order, which may also be adopted or rejected, and so on until the assembly is satisfied, because since a resolution or motion may require many amendments to express the deliberate judgment of the assembly, the only limit to the number of amendments that may be made is the will of the assembly. In amending an amendment you may amend in any of the forms of amendment—i. e., by inserting or adding, by striking out, by striking and inserting or adding, by division of the proposed amendment, or by substitution. When an amendment to an amendment is before the assembly it requires three separate votes to decide the question. Provided all are carried, the questions will be as follows:
1. On the amendment to the amendment.
2. On the amended amendment.
3. On the main question as amended.
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