strathspey@strathspey.org:44917

Anselm Lingnau

Re: The RSCDS Constitution

March 30, 2006, 12:10 p.m. (Message 44917, in reply to message 44916)

Jim Healy wrote:

> Scots law is no different. What is on the web site is a discussion
> document. Any changes to the Constitution must be approved by a 2/3rds
> majority of those voting at the AGM. The safeguards are there.

Yes. Any changes to the *current* constitution must be approved by the AGM, 
and I didn't mean to imply any different.

However, I should like things to stay that way, hence I'm seconding Andrew's 
opinion that the MB should not be given the power *by the AGM* to 
unilaterally change the constitution in the future :^) I don't know whether 
Scots law allows the membership to explicitly vote itself out of the loop 
like that; German law (irrelevantly to the matter at hand) doesn't.

Again, I am sure that the current changes have been proposed with only the 
best of intentions.

Anselm
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