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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

Name

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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.

Website

Involved in

Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2019 Edition)

Description: Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah

As: user contributor editor

United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65

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

As: user contributor editor

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

Description: None

As: contributor editor

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Description: None

As: contributor editor

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

Description: None

As: user contributor editor