Robert's Rules of Order Revised
by General Henry M. Robert
1915 Version, Public Domain
[Editor's Note: The copyright on the original 1915 version has
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© 1996
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the paragraph number. Footnotes have been numbered and moved to the end of
sections. The Order of Precedence of Motions and the Table of Rules Relating to
Motions have also been reformatted and revised to adapt them to the needs of an
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Table of Contents
- Order of Precedence of
Motions. (OPM)
- Table of Rules Relating to
Motions. (TRM)
- Preface. (PRE)
- Introduction. (INT)
-
- Parliamentary Law
(PAR)
- Plan of the Work
(WRK)
- Definitions (DEF)
- Part I.- Rules of Order.
- Art. I.- How Business
is Conducted in Deliberative Assemblies.
-
- 1. Introduction of
Business
- 2. What Precedes
Debate
- 3. Obtaining the
Floor
- 4. Motions and
Resolutions
- 5. Seconding Motions
- 6. Stating the
Question
- 7. Debate
- 8. Secondary Motions
- 9. Putting the
Question and Announcing the Vote
- 10. Proper Motions
to Use to Accomplish Certain Objects
- Art. II.- General
Classification of Motions.
-
- 11. Main or
Principal Motions
- 12. Subsidiary
Motions
- 13. Incidental
Motions
- 14. Privileged
Motions
- 15. Some Main and
Unclassified Motions
- Art. III.- Privileged
Motions.
-
- 16. Fix the Time to
which the Assembly shall Adjourn
- 17. Adjourn
- 18. Take a Recess
- 19. Questions of
Privilege
- 20. General and
Special Orders and a Call for the Orders of the Day
- Art. IV.- Incidental
Motions.
-
- 21. Questions of
Order and Appeal
- 22. Suspension of
the Rules
- 23. Objection to
the Consideration of a Question
- 24. Division of a
Question, and Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim
- 25. Division of the
Assembly, and Motions relating to Methods of Voting, or to Closing or
Reopening the Polls
- 26. Motions
relating to Methods of Making, or to Closing or to Reopening Nominations
- 27. Requests
growing out of Business Pending or that has just been pending, as, a
Parliamentary Inquiry, a Request for Information, for Leave to Withdraw
a Motion to Read Papers, to be Excused from a Duty, or for any other
Privilege
- Art. V.- Subsidiary
Motions.
-
- 28. Lay on the
Table
- 29. The Previous
Question
- 30. Limit or Extend
Limits of Debate
- 31. Postpone
Definitely, or to a Certain Time
- 32. Commit or
Refer, or Recommit
- 33. Amend
- 34. Postpone
Indefinitely
- Art. VI.- Some Main and
Unclassified Motions.
-
- 35. Take from the
Table
- 36. Reconsider
- 37. Rescind
- 38. Renewal of a
Motion
- 39. Ratify
- 40. Dilatory,
Absurd, or Frivolous Motions
- 41. Call of the
House
- Art. VII.- Debate.
-
- 42. Debate
- 43. Decorum in
Debate
- 44. Closing and
Preventing Debate
- 45. Principles of
Debate and Undebatable Motions
- Art. VIII.- Vote.
-
- 46. Voting
- 47. Votes that are
Null and Void even if Unanimous
- 48. Motions
requiring more than a Majority Vote
- Art. IX.- Committees
and Boards.
-
- 49. Committees
Classified
- 50. Boards of
Managers, etc., and Executive Committees
- 51. Ex-Officio
Members of Boards and Committees
- 52. Committees,
Special and Standing
- 53. Reception of
Reports
- 54. Adoption or
Acceptance of Reports
- 55. Committee of
the Whole
- 56. As if in
Committee of the Whole
- 57. Informal
Consideration
- Art. X.- The Officers
and the Minutes.
-
- 58. Chairman or
President
- 59. Secretary or
Clerk
- 60. The Minutes
- 61. Executive
Secretary
- 62. Treasurer
- Art. XI.-
Miscellaneous.
-
- 63. Session
- 64. Quorum
- 65. Order of
Business
- 66. Nominations and
Elections
- 67. Constitutions,
By-laws, Rules of Order, and Standing Rules
- 68. Amendments of
Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules of Order
- Part II.- Organization, Meetings, and Legal Rights of Assemblies.
- Art. XII.- Organization
and Meetings.
-
- 69. An Occasional
or Mass Meeting
-
- (a)
Organization
- (b) Adoption of
Resolutions
- (c) Committee
to draft Resolutions
- (d)
Semi-Permanent Mass Meeting
- 70. A Permanent
Society.
-
- (a) First
Meeting
- (b) Second
Meeting
- (c) Regular
Meeting
- 71. Meeting of a
Convention.
-
- (a) An
Organized Convention
- (b) A
Convention not yet Organized
- Art. XIII.- Legal
Rights of Assemblies and Trial of Their Members.
-
- 72. Right of an
Assembly to Punish its Members
- 73. Right of an
Assembly to Eject any one from its Place of Meeting
- 74. Rights of
Ecclesiastical Tribunals
- 75. Trial of
Members of Societies
- Plan for Study of
Parliamentary Law. (PLN)
-
- Introduction
- Lesson Outlines
(LES)
- Index (NDX)
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