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Also you should consider that you are a "ONE MAN SHOW" President, you can't do everything and expect each of these members to just accept it because you are President. There are limits to what a president can do without a chapter voting. You should try to get their input and find out what they think about the way things are going. Also, you are the president, and I assume that in your organization that means you can create and appoint Committes. Our chapter has a Constitution Committe which stays abreast of District and National Consitutions and reviews our own to make sure ours isn't clashing with them. They also come up with new amendments if there is a need and even peruse the chapter constitutions of other chapters to see if our chapter consitution could be made to work better. If you do everything and expect the chapter go happily along with your choices then you'll get excactly what you've gotten from this matter. But also keep in mind that you are the President and the members need to follow the rules. So create Committes whether permanent or AdHoc and make sure they are doing their jobs and your members will feel more at rest and be more likely to give input. In other words, empower them to make it their own and they will fight for it, but force it upon them and they will resent you for it.