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Daisy Carrington

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In the summary of changes in 11th edition RONR on this site, parliamentary law (#5) and parliamentary procedure (#18) are mentioned. #5 states: One vote, one person is the fundamental principal of parliamentary law. It is my understanding that RONR covers parliamentary procedure as mentioned in #18. Is calling it law a tradition? Is it really just procedure? Looking for depth on the subject. Thanks!

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In the summary of changes in 11th edition RONR on this site, parliamentary law (#5) and parliamentary procedure (#18) are mentioned. #5 states: One vote, one person is the fundamental principal of parliamentary law. It is my understanding that RONR covers parliamentary procedure as mentioned in #18. Is calling it law a tradition? Is it really just procedure? Looking for depth on the subject. Thanks!

 

As noted on page xxx of the Introduction to RONR (11th ed.), "The term parliamentary procedure, although frequently used synonymously with parliamentary law, refers in this book to parliamentary law as it is followed in any given assembly or organization, together with whatever rules of order the body may have adopted."

 

It should be understood that the terms “parliamentary law”, "common parliamentary law”, and “general parliamentary law", properly understood, all refer to rules and precedents adopted or created by deliberative assemblies for the governance of their proceedings. These terms do not refer to anything created by court decisions. As also noted in its Introduction, the current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order embodies, as did preceding editions, a codification of the present-day common parliamentary law. 

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