Quill

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

Name

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Profile

Ethan Bassett studies Political Science and Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University. He has been working on The Quill Project since 2020 and has contributed to the Wyoming and Illinois State Convention Projects. He is passionate about the promotion of constitutional literacy.

Website

https://twitter.com/ethancbassett?lang=en

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.

As: contributor editor

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Description: An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.

As: user

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

Description: None