Robert McConnell Productions

“If you can remember these principles, you’ll be able to solve problems that come up in your organization and meetings, even if you can’t remember the specific rules: Take up business one item at a time. Doing so maintains order, expedites business, and accomplishes the purpose of the organization. Promote courtesy, justice, impartiality, and equality. This ensures that everyone is heard, that members treat each other with courtesy, that everyone has the same rights, and that no individual or special group is singled out for special favors. The majority rules, but the rights of individual, minority, and absent members are protected. This principle ensures that, even though the majority rules, the minority has a right to be heard and its ideas are taken seriously. Similarly, the minority doesn’t leave the organization because it didn’t win; it knows that it may win another day. Following this principle preserves the unity and harmony of the organization.”
― Robert McConnell Productions, Webster's New World: Robert's Rules of Order: Simplified & Applied

“In the words of Henry M. Robert, who wrote what we know today as Robert’s Rules of Order, “Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.”
― Robert McConnell Productions, Webster's New World: Robert's Rules of Order: Simplified & Applied