RESOLVED FURTHER : That the Delegate Selection Rules for the 2012 Convention shall provide that no meetings , caucuses , conventions or primaries which constitute the first determining stage in the presidential nomination process ( the date of the primary in primary states and the date of the first tier caucus in caucus states ) shall be held prior to the first Tuesday in March of the election year , except as otherwise provided in the Delegate Selection Rules and recognizing the valuable role played by the approved pre-Window states in 2008 ; and provided that no such meeting , caucus , convention or primary shall in any event be held prior to February 1 of the calendar year of the National Convention ; and that the Commission also shall review the sequence and scheduling of primaries and caucuses with a view towards reducing the scheduling of such events on the first allowable date that resulted in 22 primaries and caucuses being held on such date in 2008 and toward reducing frontloading within the Window period ; and that the Commission shall review the rules for proper enforcement of the primary and caucus timing requirements and delegate allocation matters , particularly with respect to action by the Rules and Bylaws Committee ; and that in making its recommendations , the Commission consider any revision of the Rules of the Republican Party of the United States adopted by the 2008 Republican National Convention regarding the scheduling and sequence of presidential nominating events .