Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Practical Manual of Parliamentary Rules: Compiled for the Ready Reference of Societies, Conventions, Public Meetings, and Deliberative and Legislative Assemblies
Rules for organization, and for the conduct of busi ness, stand at the foundation of all progress in legisla tion. Equally essential are they to the harmonious and successful transaction of the business of public meet ings or voluntary assemblies of all kinds. In this coun try the forum of debate is so wide, and the personal freedom of the citizen so absolute, that there is peculiar necessity for some standard of common appeal, which shall forward the objects of every assembly, without undue restriction of its individual members. An unor ganized assembly is a mob, and a mob without a leader. The object of all parliamentary rules is, or should be, to organize the will of the assembly into orderly action. While every parliamentary body has its parties, and almost every deliberative assembly develops marked dif ferences of opinion, a firm adherence to just rules, ad ministered by an impartial presiding officer, will com monly insure the prevalence of the will of the majority, which, under free government, is assumed to he the supreme law. It is the aim of this brief Manual to combine, in a succinct and business-like order, those principles of par liamentary law most generally recognized by the latest authorities on this subject. Many extensive treatises exist, some of which, though valuable, are so antiquated as to be unsafe guides. Many special Manuals contain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
