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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

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Profile

Joseph Andersen-Stanley is a senior at Utah Valley University majoring in Political Science and minoring in Philosophy and Constitutional Studies. He has been working on the Quill project since May 2019, and has been a Co-Team Lead over the NEH Project since February 2020. Joseph plans to go to graduate school and aspires to be a professor teaching political science. The Quill project has allowed him to get a deep dive into research, political philosophy and constitutionalism as an undergraduate, which helps prepare him for graduate school and beyond.

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Involved in

United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65

Description: An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Description: None

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South Dakota State Constitutional Convention 1889

Description: Following the rejected 'Sioux Falls' Convention of 1885, the South Dakota Convention met and began the drafting process in July of 1889. They used the articles of the Sioux Falls Convention as starting propositions to begin the amendment process. The South Dakota Constitution was ratified in October 1889.

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The Dakotas Joint Committee for the Division of Property 1889

Description: The Dakotas Joint Committee for the Division of Property began on July 16, 1889 and dissolved on July 31, 1889. It allowed for delegates from both the North and South Conventions to meet in Bismarck and negotiate the splitting of the Territory of Dakota.

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North Dakota State Constitutional Convention 1889 [updated-6.1 v3]

Description: The Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of North Dakota from July to August of 1889.

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