Parliamentary law

[Kim Goldsworthy]

RONR page 3 (Section 1) refers to:

* general parliamentary law

* common parliamentary law

 

Q. How does the authorship team monitor the United States of America for current parliamentary law?

 

Similarly:

Q. Where do you draw the line between:

(a.) personal opinion of what a rule ought to be?

(b.) objective measurement what thousands of nonprofit organziations are truly exercising (and customizing) within their countless meetings?

 

Q. How would one accurately, impartially measure, ". . . the extent that there is agreement . . . as to what these rules are"?

 

A deliberative assembly that has not adopted any rules

is commonly understood to hold itself bound by the rules and customs of

the general parliamentary law

― or common parliamentary law (as discussed in the Introduction)

― to the extent that there is agreement in the meeting body as to what these rules and practices are.

 

 

[Rev Ed]

 

Q. How does the authorship team monitor the United States of America for current parliamentary law?

 

Q. How would one accurately, impartially measure, ". . . the extent that there is agreement . . . as to what these rules are"?

 

Well, seeing that we are now up to the 11th Edition of RONR, I would suggest that the authorship team is considering what is happening, or else the first edition would still be 'the book.'

 

Also, I think the list of changes between the 10th and 11th editions, as described here would suggest that the authorship team is certainly monitoring what is the needs of organization as and how parliamentary law can assist them to operate.

[Dan Honemann]

The terms “parliamentary law”, "common parliamentary law”, and “general parliamentary law”, all refer to rules and precedents adopted by deliberative assemblies for the governance of their proceedings, and the Introduction to the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised provides a great deal of information concerning the evolution of these rules and precedents. A careful reading of this Introduction is highly recommended.