User blog comment:MrOwnerandPwner/A Council of Order/@comment-24499539-20130910233245/@comment-6812733-20130911123757

Haven't played Civ V BNW yet so I don't know how the diplomacy works in it now. But every mapper in the council (normal member or leading member) can vote and everyone can propose some sort of change. This will then lead to a voting, in which every member of the order would decide to either accept or deny this change. But if almost half of the leading members would vote for deny then that subject would be pulled into a discussion between the leading members. After a discussion the leading members would vote again and if again, almost half or more of the leading members would vote for deny, it would not be accepted.