Robert's Rules of Order
Robert's Rules of Order are the official parliamentary rules of the party.
The book:
Robert's Rules of Order, 12th Ed can be purchased here.
Why Have Rules?
In order for everyone to participate, in order for everyone to be heard, and in order for the group to make decisions fairly, we need rules.
It's difficult to hold a fair meeting with a group of people. As the group gets larger, this becomes more and more difficult.
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to W. C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
Tools For Better Meetings
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"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Hunter, 1790