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Welcome to Robert's Rules of Order
Plan for Study of Parliamentary Law
Index of Robert's Rules Online
Getting Started
Table of Contents
Order of Precedence of Motions
Table of Rules Relating to Motions
Preface
Introduction to Robert's Rules of Order
Part I - Rules of Order
Deliberative Assemblies- Art. I
Classification of Motions- Art. II
Privileged Motions - Art. III
Incidental Motions - Art. IV
Subsidiary Motions - Art. V
Main and Unclassified Motions - Art. VI
Debate - Art. VII
Vote - Art. VIII
Committees and Boards - Art. IX
The Officers and the Minutes - Art. X
Miscellaneous - Art. XI
Part II-Organizations, Meeting, Assembly
Organizations and Meetings - Art. XII
Rights of Assemblies/Trial of Members-Art XIII

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Robert's Rules of Order Revised

by General Henry M. Robert 1915 4th Ed., Public Domain

Robert's Rules of Order - RulesOnline.com According to Robert’s Rules of Order, parliamentary procedure is based on the consideration of the rights: of the majority, of the minority (especially a large minority greater than one-third), of individual members, of absentee members, of all of these groups taken together.

“The application of parliamentary law is the best method yet devised to enable assemblies of any size, with due regard for every member’s opinion, to arrive at the general will on the maximum number of questions of varying complexity in a minimum amount of time and under all kinds of internal climate ranging from total harmony to hardened or impassioned division of opinion.” RONR (10th ed.), Introduction, p. XLVIII

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