Robert's Rules
Parliamentary procedure guide
Robert's Rules is shorthand for *Robert's Rules of Order*, a manual of parliamentary procedure governing how meetings are conducted.
The rules cover motions, voting, debate, and decision-making in deliberative assemblies.
Organizations from corporate boards to student councils adopt Robert's Rules to ensure orderly proceedings: The chair ruled the motion out of order under Robert's Rules.
- parliamentaryOf a legislature
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
- motionChange in position
- secondedFormally supported another's motion
- quorumMinimum for valid proceedings
agenda · chairman · gavel · minutes · order · out of order · amendment · vote · roll call vote · adjourn · floor · debate · committee · voting member · bylaws · majority · point of order · table
- town meetingmoderator, selectmen, selectman, town clerk, appropriation
- parliamentparliament, bills, votes, vote, debate
Robert's Rulesbull session
Informal group discussion
brainstorming session · open forum · open dialogue · fireside chat · town hall
Robert's Ruleschaos
Complete disorder and confusion
free-for-all · pandemonium · shouting match · anarchy · bedlam
Robert, rule, rules, ruled, ruling, ruler, rulers, rulebook, misrule