2016 Wesleyan Discipline:Equal ministerial and lay representation: General Conference may not change
From Wesleyan Discipline
360:3
- (b) It shall not change or alter any part or rule of our government, so as to destroy the principle of equal representation of ministers and lay members in the representative bodies of the Church; or to do away with the right of each General Conference to elect its own officers, or the maintenance of an itinerant ministry.