RONR Quotes Lookup practice for RP Exam part 1
The business of a legislative body is vastly greater in volume and more complex than that of the typical ordinary society, so that most of the work in legislative bodies is done in standing committees, whereas in a local society it is handled by the assembly or, if necessary, is assigned to special committees.
[page xxxiii]
The business of a legislative body is vastly greater in volume and more complex than that of the typical ordinary society, so that most of the work in legislative bodies is done in standing committees, whereas in a local society it is handled by the assembly or, if necessary, is assigned to special committees.
[page xlvii]
Fundamentally, under the rules of parliamentary law, a deliberative body is a free agent - free to do what it wants to do with the greatest measure of protection to itself and of consideration for the rights of its members.
[page xlviii]
The application of parliamentary law is the best method yet devised to enable assemblies of any size, with due regard for every member's opinion, to arrive at the general will on the maximum number of questions of varying complexity in a minimum amount of time and under all kinds of internal climate ranging from total harmony to hardened or impassioned division of opinion.
[page xlviii]
Persons having the right to participate - that is, the members - are ordinarily free to act within the assembly according to their own judgment.
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In any decision made, the opinion of each member present has equal weight as expressed by vote - through which the voting member joins in assuming direct personal responsibility for the decision, should his or her vote be on the prevailing side.
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Failure to concur in a decision of the body does not constitute withdrawal from the body.
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A session may be loosely described as a single complete course of an assembly's engagement in the conduct of business, and may consist of one or more meetings.
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The basic principle of decision in a deliberative assembly is that, to become the act or choice of the body, a proposition must be adopted by a majority vote; that is, direct approval - implying assumption of responsibility for the act - must be registered by more than half of the members present and voting on the particular matter, in a regular or properly called meeting at which the necessary minimum number of members, known as a quorum (pp. 20-21), is present (see also p. 387).
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The call of a meeting is a written notice of the time and place, which is mailed or distributed to all members of the organization a reasonable time in advance.
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The mass meeting is the simplest form of assembly in principle, although not the one most frequently encountered.
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A convention is an assembly of delegates (other than a permanently established public lawmaking body) chosen, normally for one session only, as representatives of constituent units or subdivisions of a much larger body of people in whose name the convention sits and acts.
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The ordinary convention seldom lasts longer than a week.
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