Who Decides the Rules for the 2016 Republican National Convention?
The convention delegates decide.
A week before the Convention, the 2016 Convention Rules Committee must convene to put together a package of rules to recommend for consideration by all delegates.
Delegates from each state and territory elect two representatives from within their own delegations to the Convention Rules Committee – 112 delegates in total.
The Convention Rules Committee, after debate and discussion, adopts by majority vote a package of recommended rules that moves to the convention floor.
Once a majority of the convention delegates adopt the report, the rules become the permanent rules governing that Convention.
That package, called a Rules Report, is adopted by the Convention Rules Committee by majority vote.
If a Trump has a majority, his campaign will write the Convention’s rules.