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On 8/13/2022 at 5:14 AM, Joshua Katz said:

RONR advises against having a separate bylaws and constitution.

I'm not so sure that "advises against" is accurate. RONR 56:1 refers to having a single document as "the preferred practice for ordinary societies today." To me, that seems more like a recognition of a common practice than actual advice. Nevertheless, I agree that there usually is no good reason for having separate documents.

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On 8/12/2022 at 11:24 PM, R12181948 said:

Must an organization have seperate bylaws and constitution or can they be one in the same?

They can be one and the same.  In fact, RONR recognizes this as the typical practice nowadays.

The combined document may be called Constitution and Bylaws, or as is probably more common, just Bylaws.

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