Pocket Manual of Rules Of Order For Deliberative Assemblies pdf download

Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies

ROBERT’S RULES OF ORDER – Pocket Manual of Rules Of Order For Deliberative Assemblies

Henry M. Robert

POCKET MANUAL OF RULES OF ORDER FOR DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES

Book preface.

There appears to be much needed a work on parliamentary law, based, in its

general principles, upon the rules and practice of Congress, and adapted, in its details, to the use of ordinary societies. Such work should give, not only the methods of organizing and conducting the meetings, the duties of the officers

and the names of the ordinary motions, but in addition, should state in a

systematic manner, in reference to each motion, its object and effect; whether it

can be amended or debated; if debatable, the extent to which it opens the main question to debate; the circumstances under which it can be made, and what

other motions can be made while it is pending. This Manual has been prepared

with a view to supplying the above information in a condensed and systematic manner, each rule being either complete in itself or giving references to every section that in any way qualifies it, so that a stranger to the work can refer to any special subject with safety.

To aid in quickly referring to as many as possible of the rules relating to each motion, there is placed immediately before the Index, a Table of Rules, which enables one, without turning a page, to find the answers to some two hundred questions. The Table of Rules is so arranged as to greatly assist the reader in systematizing his knowledge of parliamentary law.

The second part is a simple explanation of the common methods of conducting business in ordinary