![]() 1 Its potential as both an effective tool and a bespoke weapon has long been a part of the book’s appeal. ![]() Sitting down at a committee table and placing an unopened, unread copy where others could see it is a power move all its own: an index of the paradoxically occult sway of ostensibly transparent procedure, a threat and a promise. ![]() ![]() Its talismanic power is such that an effective use of the book might not even require consultation. “If only you had looked at page 47 of Robert’s Rules,” we can hear someone saying, “you would have known that a Motion to Suppress the Question requires a two-thirds vote. Even in Robert’s own early editions, the guidance on secondary, subsidiary, incidental, privileged, unclassified, and other motions was presented in a pointedly systematic form that invited not slow perusal but rather tactical, and sometimes supercilious, consultation. Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order Revised (1915)ĭoes anyone read Robert’s Rules of Order? We often threaten to consult it, but it’s hard to imagine someone really reading any of the many versions of Henry Robert’s 1876 text. ![]() The Previous Question does not refer, as its name would imply, to the previous question. ![]()
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