Parliamentary Rules
Parliamentary Law Choice of Rules
Introduction to Parliamentary Rules
An organization may adopt as its rules of procedure those of the U.S. House of Representatives, if applicable, or of a standard reference work on parliamentary law. A permanent organization may incorporate certain procedural rules in its constitution or bylaws. A long-standing authority in parliamentary procedure, used by many nonlegislative organizations, is Robert’s Rules of Order (1876, revised ed. 1915) by the American army engineer Henry Martyn Robert. Robert was also the author of Parliamentary Practice (1921) and Parliamentary Law (1923). Like most other American parliamentary texts, Robert’s procedure is based on the House rules, which in turn are derived from British parliamentary law. Many bodies throughout the world, including the Japanese diet, have procedures based upon British and American parliamentary law.” (1)
Resources
Notes and References
- Information about Parliamentary Rules in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia
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