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Henry Martyn Robert
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DFW Parli meetings are being adjusted to live in a virus world, BUT meeting back at Prairie Paws in-person

DFW Parliamentarians meets in-person at our partner facility, Prairie Paws in Grand Prairie.  Meetings will continue to be the 4th Monday at 7pm. 
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Henry Martyn Robert (May 2, 1837 – May 11, 1923) was an American soldier, engineer, and author. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his manual of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order, which remains today the most common parliamentary authority in the United States.

Today the practice of parliamentary procedure is spread around the world through Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised 11th edition. It's used in most Parliaments, the US Congress, State Congresses, and most County and municipal governments, as well as most all major companies. The way they use them changes, because Roberts Rules is expansive enough to address most every kind of organization.

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The man who started it all. Well, it really started with the magna carta and even before then, but hit its stride in the English parliament. When US formed a congress, they incorporated the rules of parliament, though they implemented them differently in the Senate and the House. In time, these filtered down to state congresses and many businesses began to try it out.

But, it was Robert who went to a municipal meeting where he lived and found business to be impossible. So he incorporated the rules of Congress for small organizations and standardized them. Roberts Rules of Order became the de facto standard way to run a meeting for all organizations of every size

Born May 2, 1837 Robertville, S. C.
Died May 11, 1923 (86)
Buried Arlington National Cemetery

United States Army Union Army 1857–1901
Brigadier General & Chief of Engineers
Served in Civil War as a Union officer

Henry Martyn Robert
Author of Robert's Rules of Order

Learn More about the Rules at WIKI

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Charles Bass completes the RP testing

Charles Bass, President of DFW Parliamentarians completed the testing cycle for Registered Parliamentarian.  He completed this under the legacy testing program and can now list himself as an RP.

Registered Parliamentarian is the first major attainment for parliamentarians after completing the membership exam and joining National Association of Parliamentarians. The next level for RP's is Professional Registered Parliamentarian, which adds the skills to be paid and act a parliamentarian in complicated meetings. But the testing for RP is challenging. In the legacy program, RPs have to pass five closed-book tests. This program is being replaced with a new program that tests based on qualified knowledge application to real parliamentary problems. The new program has begun for new members who want to test in the new paradigm. The legacy program will continue until all the parts of the new testing program is ready. 

Learn More about RP Credents

DFW Parliamentarians elect 2020 Officers

The DFW Parliamentarians Unit elected new officers for the 2020 term. The election was held November 25 in our Grand Prairie Prairie Paws meeting location.

Officers for the new term are as follows:
  • President - Charlie Bowles DTM
  • Vice President - Charles Bass RP
  • Secretary - Kevin Baker
  • Treasurer - Denise Hardwick

The new officers will serve from 2019-2020.

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Rules are based on the regard for rights:
of the majority,
of the minority, especially a strong minority - greater than one-third,
of individual members,
of absentees, and
of all these together.

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 of the rights of its members.

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