Reference
The paragraphs
Everything the amendment touches, in the order it stands in the Constitution.
The amendment reaches 29 paragraphs: 26 amended, two struck, and one added. Numbers below are those of the 2024 Book of Discipline. The ballot papers used a different set — see the note on each page, and the explanation of the numbering.
| ¶ | What it governs | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Section I. Conferences | ||
| ¶10 | Regional conferences exist, and they cover the whole church rather than only the part of it outside the United States. | Rewritten |
| ¶11 | Jurisdictional conferences are now permitted rather than required, and are no longer defined as a United States institution. | Rewritten |
| ¶14 | Added outright: each conference acts autonomously within its own powers, and legislation is not void merely for overlapping another conference’s. | New |
| Section II. General Conference | ||
| ¶16 | How many delegates each annual conference sends — and, newly, who sets that ratio for jurisdictional conferences. | Amended |
| ¶17 | What General Conference may legislate — including, newly, what it may place beyond a region’s reach. | Rewritten |
| Section IV. Jurisdictional Conferences | ||
| ¶24 | How many delegates a jurisdictional conference has. | Amended |
| ¶25 | All jurisdictional conferences have the same standing as one another. | Amended |
| ¶26 | Who fixes the basis of representation in jurisdictional conferences. | Amended |
| ¶27 | When and where a jurisdictional conference meets, and who decides. | Rewritten |
| ¶28 | What a jurisdictional conference may do. It keeps the power to elect bishops. | Rewritten |
| Section V. Regional Conferences was Section V. Central Conferences | ||
| ¶29 | Creates the regional conferences by name — including a United States regional conference, which did not previously exist. | Rewritten |
| ¶30 | How many delegates a regional conference has. | Amended |
| ¶31 | Regional conferences meet in the year following General Conference. | Rewritten |
| ¶32 | What a regional conference may decide for itself. The adaptation powers, and what bounds them. | Rewritten |
| Section VI. Annual Conferences | ||
| ¶33 | Who sits in an annual conference. | Amended |
| ¶34 | The annual conference is the basic body of the church, and this is what it votes on. | Rewritten |
| ¶35 | How an annual conference elects its delegates, and how reserves cascade. | Rewritten |
| ¶36 | Who may be elected a clergy delegate, and who may vote for one. | Rewritten |
| ¶37 | Who may be elected a lay delegate. | Amended |
| Section VII. Boundaries | ||
| ¶39 | Struck. The provision that formed the church outside the United States into central conferences. | Struck |
| ¶40 | Struck. The provision governing changes to jurisdictional boundaries. | Struck |
| ¶41 | Who determines the names and boundaries of annual conferences and episcopal areas. | Rewritten |
| Episcopal supervision | ||
| ¶47 | Who elects bishops, and when. | Rewritten |
| ¶49 | The bishops of a region or jurisdiction form a College, which arranges episcopal supervision. | Rewritten |
| ¶50 | Where a bishop serves, and the conditions for transferring one. | Rewritten |
| ¶51 | How long a bishop serves — which is not the same in every region. | Rewritten |
| ¶53 | Which bishops preside over which conferences. | Amended |
| The judiciary | ||
| ¶57 | What the Judicial Council may rule on. | Rewritten |
| Amendments | ||
| ¶62 | A regional or jurisdictional conference may propose amendments to the Constitution. | Amended |