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A deliberative assembly is an organization
Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
 comprising members who use parliamentary procedure
Parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, Legislature, and other deliberative assembly....
 for making decisions.

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Robert's Rules of Order

Robert's Rules of Order is the informal short title of a book containing rules of order intended to be adopted for use by a deliberative assembly....
 describes certain characteristics of a deliberative assembly, such as each member having an equal vote and the fact that the group meets to determine courses of action to be taken in the name of the entire group. A deliberative assembly may have different classes of members.






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A deliberative assembly is an organization
Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
 comprising members who use parliamentary procedure
Parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, Legislature, and other deliberative assembly....
 for making decisions.

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Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
Robert's Rules of Order

Robert's Rules of Order is the informal short title of a book containing rules of order intended to be adopted for use by a deliberative assembly....
 describes certain characteristics of a deliberative assembly, such as each member having an equal vote and the fact that the group meets to determine courses of action to be taken in the name of the entire group. A deliberative assembly may have different classes of members. Common classes are voting members (also known as regular members) who have the right to vote, ex-officio members, and honorary members.

Types of Deliberative Assemblies (RONR)


  • The Mass Meeting
    Mass meeting

    | |}A mass meeting, as understood in parliamentary law, is a type of deliberative assembly, which in a publicized or selectively distributed notice known as the call of the meeting - has been announced:...
  • The Local Assembly of an Organized Society
  • The Convention
    Convention (meeting)

    A convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at a arid place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest....
  • The Legislative Body
    Legislature

    Legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create and change laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law....
  • The Board


A committee
Committee

A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole"....
 is a type of small deliberative assembly that is subordinate to another deliberative assembly.

See also

  • American Institute of Parliamentarians
    American Institute of Parliamentarians

    The American Institute of Parliamentarians is a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 1958 for the advancement of parliamentary procedure....
  • National Association of Parliamentarians
    National Association of Parliamentarians

    The National Association of Parliamentarians , is the largest non-profit association of professional Parliamentary procedure in the world.NAP was organized in 1930....
  • Rules of order
    Rules of order

    Rules of order, also known as standing orders or rules of procedure, are the written rules of parliamentary procedure adopted by a deliberative assembly, which detail the processes used by the body to make decisions....