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From: Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised 10th Edition

Principles Underlying Parliamentary Law (Articles)

Monday 11 January 2016

The rules of parliamentary law found in this book will, on analysis, be seen to be constructed upon a careful balance of the rights of persons or subgroups within an organization’s or an assembly’s total membership. That is, these rules are based on a regard for the rights: • of the majority, (...)

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Image: Oleg Kharkhordin, political sociologist and the the Rector of the European University of St. Petersburg

The Troubled Travels of Robert’s Rules of Order from America to Russia (Articles)

Wednesday 2 December 2015

On October 15, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed Oleg Kharkhordin with a lecture entitled “A Point of Order! The Troubled Travels of Robert’s Rules of Order from America to Russia, or How Russians Tried to Invent Order Themselves.” Oleg Kharkhordin is a political sociologist and the the Rector of (...)

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Image: a page of the first number of The Students’ Union Gazette of the American University of Beirut - 1915

The first introduction of Robert’s Rules of Order to the Middle East (Articles)

Tuesday 17 November 2015

It seems that the article titled "Rules of Parliamentary Discipline" which published in the first number of the Students’ Union Gazette of the American University of Beirut in 1915 is the first introducing of Robert’s Rules of Order to the Middle East.

The article that has been written by a young sixteen years old student was in English. Just ninety years later the Arabic translation of Robert’s Rules of Order introduced to the Arab world and after a century the Persian translation of it is to be delivered to the Iranians.

The article is dedicated bellow:

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Who Are Eligible for The Republic? (Articles)

Sunday 4 October 2015

After publishing of the third edition of Robert’s Rules of Order on 1893, The New York Times published in its March 24 number, 1895, an article about the importance of parliamentary low and the significant role of this book. A Persian translation of the article submits to the participants of Workshops for Teaching Robert’s Rules of Order taking place in Tehran, Iran. The following picture is a copy of the article and its Persian translation is also here.

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