Bylaws "...define the primary characteristics of the organization...[and] include all rules that the society considers so important that they (a) cannot be changed without previous notice to the members and the vote of a specified large majority...and (b) cannot be suspended (with the exception of clauses that provide for their own suspension...)"
- Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised, 11th Edition (2011).
Bylaws of the North American Vexillological Association