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§ 121 The only way by which action could be reversed at that session would be to reconsider the vote by which said paragraph was struck out, or inserted. This reconsideration, if it prevailed, would place the question again before the assembly in precisely the same condition as before the vote to strike out or insert was taken, and than the desired amendment would be in order.

121. If the motion is to strike out one paragraph and insert another, said motion takes on the form of a substitute (141), and as such the friends of the paragraph it is proposed to insert (beginning with the proposition to strike out), have the right to perfect said paragraphs by amendment before the text vote; because by said proposition the assembly would otherwise have simply a choice between two paragraphs, neither of which might be fully acceptable, and if the motion prevailed the paragraph struck out could not be restored, and the paragraph inserted could not be struck out or amended.