question cannot be made to interfere with the discussion of a question
before the assembly, but as soon as that subject is disposed of, the
reconsideration, if called up, takes precedence of every thing except
the motions to adjourn, and to fix the time to which to adjourn. As
long as its effect lasts (as shown above), any one can call up the
motion to reconsider and have it acted upon--excepting that when its
effect extends beyond the meeting at which the motion was made, no one
but the mover can call it up at that meeting. But the reconsideration
of an Incidental [§ 8] or Subsidiary [§ 7]

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motion shall be immediately acted upon, as otherwise it would prevent
action on the main question.

The Effect of the adoption of this motion is to place before the
assembly the original question in the exact position it occupied before
it was voted upon; consequently no one can debate the question
reconsidered who had previously exhausted his right of debate [§ 34] on
that question; his only resource is to discuss the question while the
motion to reconsider is before the assembly.

When a vote taken under the operation of the previous question [§ 20] is
reconsidered, the question is then divested of the previous question,
and is open to debate and amendment, provided the previous question had
been exhausted [see latter part of § 20] by votes taken on all the
questions covered by it, before the motion to reconsider was made.

A reconsideration requires only a majority vote, regardless of the vote
necessary to adopt the motion reconsidered. [For reconsidering in