Definition of "The Corporation" needed? about csgf-draftdocs HOT 3 CLOSED

@ellio167 makes a good point here. Maybe the more general issue is choosing what legal structure this organization will have. Has this been decided? Does it generate some requirements for a constitution or bylaws?

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@hagberg According to Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (11th edition) p. 13, ll. 10-25, the Name and Object of the organization are typically specified in a corporate charter, so the bylaws may change, depending on the order in which the organization is incorporated and the bylaws are adopted.

Also, according to ibid. p. 11, ll. 24-35 and p. 12, ll. 1-4, the corporate charter should:

• be drafted by an attorney
• can only be amended subject to applicable laws and provisions in the charter
• supersedes the bylaws
• nothing in it can be suspended except by provision of the charter

so a charter should only contain what is necessary to obtain it (name, object, legal status of organization) and leave everything else to the bylaws and lower-ranking rules, which are supposed to be easier to change.

As a separate point, in modern nonlegislative deliberative assemblies, constitution and bylaws tend to be combined (ibid., p. 12-14); the citation discusses reasons why combining them is preferable, and specifically notes (ibid., p. 14, ll. 6-9) that a constitution would duplicate much of the corporate charter.

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Hi all,

We have elected to use the word "Association" throughout the document, and it is defined in Article 1.

Thanks very much,
Jay

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