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Parliamentarian's Journey: September 2009
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Last weekend, I had the pleasure of joining four other parliamentarians to put on a day long workshop in Harlingen, Texas. Lucy Anderson and Dennis Clark were the main organizers and put considerable effort into advertising, organizing, and building a PowerPoint presentation of over 100 slides. Richard Hayes, Tophas Anderson, and I assisted with the teaching. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). PARLIAMEN...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: October 2009
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Friday, October 23, 2009. Amend, Incidentally Speaking. Parliamentary law is a multi-dimensional subject, yet we often view it in a two-dimensional format. This is best symbolized by imagining the open pages of. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. A great example of an oblique look taken on a grand scale is Nancy Sylvester's book The Guerrilla Guide to Robert's Rules. This book is a clever decoy for learning the basics of...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: Flight Training
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Friday, May 28, 2010. Serving as the presiding officer over a meeting takes skill and practice to master. Few people develop that far simply because they do not get the proper training or put the time into it. There are some who have presided over meetings for years, putting in the time, but never mastering the skill because the training needs to go with the practice. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. Of the 139 hours w...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: November 2009
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Or is there something sentimental about that old volume that got you through a decade worth of parliamentary maizes? Maybe all those dog-eared and tabbed pages with multi-colored highlighting and penciled notes give it the character of an old and indispensible bible? Presidents. I have purposefully kept the pages clean and untattered by my scribblings. I use this one as my. Has been issued at the b...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: Taking a Seat in the Assembly
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Monday, February 15, 2010. Taking a Seat in the Assembly. Look that one up). Having established my intellectual limits, let me digress along. If the reluctance to stand was a natural tendency, then there should be a connection with instinct. Are we a herd animal by nature? Are we a solitary or roving animal by nature? Well, maybe that is too much for the glossophobiac to bear. So what is the real value in standing up? If the...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: May 2010
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Friday, May 28, 2010. Serving as the presiding officer over a meeting takes skill and practice to master. Few people develop that far simply because they do not get the proper training or put the time into it. There are some who have presided over meetings for years, putting in the time, but never mastering the skill because the training needs to go with the practice. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. Of the 139 hours w...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: The Debate on Suspend the Rules
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Monday, February 22, 2010. The Debate on Suspend the Rules. Is the motion to Suspend The Rules ever debatable? In general, the answer is no, but there is one exception. Suspend The Rules, when applied to rules of order, is never debatable, even when no other question is pending. Suspend The Rules, when applied to standing rules, is always debatable and must be made as a main motion. Suspending Rules of Order. Motion to Adjou...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: August 2009
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Thursday, August 20, 2009. Previous Question is Previous. Many critics of parliamentary procedure and especially. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. Complain about the arcane and sometimes meaningless terms used. One such term is Previous Question. One critic complained that there is nothing. About the Previous Question. How could this come about? The Speaker might respond: "Which one? After many centuries of trial and e...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: Awaiting the Eleventh
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Or is there something sentimental about that old volume that got you through a decade worth of parliamentary maizes? Maybe all those dog-eared and tabbed pages with multi-colored highlighting and penciled notes give it the character of an old and indispensible bible? Presidents. I have purposefully kept the pages clean and untattered by my scribblings. I use this one as my. Has been issued at the b...
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Parliamentarian's Journey: Integrity
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Following the activities of a parliamentarian in service, study, and cogitation. Thursday, March 4, 2010. There is a higher moral order than just strict adherence to the rules. I am no philosopher, but I think we will agree that personal integrity takes precedence over just about everything in a parliamentarian’s moral hierarchy. Albert Camus once said “Integrity has no need of rules.” Putting rules into practice is one thing; placing integrity over that practice is another. Comes from the Latin meaning.
