08-04-2022, 08:43 PM
Are we governing by omission now? By the twisted logic you are applying, why not a Council meeting to amend the Constitution? Or even a Management Committee? The reason it is an AGM is to allow the full membership to have an input. Moreover, the membership can also amend a motion at an AGM or SGM. It strikes me that in order to ram through this proposal with no risk of amendment this contrivance has been created to subvert the intention of the Constitution. Your role is to safeguard the Constitution and play by the rules not invent discretion that was never intended nor exists.
Even if I accept your interpretation, there is custom and practice and the setting of a precedence. Every constitutional amendment up to now has gone to a General Meeting. The 'new' Constitution went to one. The precedent is that Constitutional amendments go to a General meeting. The President cannot overrule precedent however well intentioned.
I think you have got this badly wrong. I suggest rather than doubling down you reconsider as you are in real danger of making an egregious error here. It's not too late to call a General meeting and avoid the ill will this will inevitably generate. It really isn't worth it.
Even if I accept your interpretation, there is custom and practice and the setting of a precedence. Every constitutional amendment up to now has gone to a General Meeting. The 'new' Constitution went to one. The precedent is that Constitutional amendments go to a General meeting. The President cannot overrule precedent however well intentioned.
I think you have got this badly wrong. I suggest rather than doubling down you reconsider as you are in real danger of making an egregious error here. It's not too late to call a General meeting and avoid the ill will this will inevitably generate. It really isn't worth it.
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