The document provides an overview of parliamentary procedure and how it can be used to effectively structure meetings. It defines parliamentary procedure as a method developed by General Henry M. Robert to bring order to meetings and protect members' rights while allowing the majority to rule. The document then lists ways to keep meetings productive using parliamentary procedure, such as creating an agenda and appointing a parliamentarian. It also outlines the basic order of business and 10 basic rules of parliamentary procedure, including the need for a quorum and allowing one question at a time.

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Parliamentary
Procedure: A Basic Guide to
Meeting Procedures
Prepared by: Dommenic C. Malocloc

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What is a Parliamentary Procedure?
Parliamentary procedure was developed by
General Henry M. Robert during the Civil War
to bring order to office meetings. The basic
premise of Robert’s Rules of Order is to protect
each member’s rights, while seeing that the
majority rules.

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What is a Parliamentary Procedure?
It is designed to accomplish one thing at a
time, bringing each to resolution before going
on to the next, all the while seeing that
courtesy is extended to everyone.

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Ways in order to keep a meeting
fresh and productive using
Parliamentary Procedure:
1. Procure or create a manual to develop a
working format for proper parliamentary
procedure.
2. Create an agenda.

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Ways in order to keep a meeting
fresh and productive using
Parliamentary Procedure:
3. Devise a “minutes” document.
4. Appoint a member to be a parliamentarian, if
the chair is not one already.
5. Make sure that members understand the
parliamentary procedure.

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Order of Business
● Call to Order
● Invocation
● Singing of Philippine National Anthem
● Declaration of the Quorum/Roll Call
● Reading of the Minutes of the Previous
Session, unless dispensed with, and
approval of the same

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Order of Business
● Public Hearing (if any)
● Privileged Speeches
● Committee Reports
● Completion of the Unfinished Business

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Order of Business
● Consideration of the Present Business
● Amendments to the Agenda
● Other Matters
● Adjournment

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The Basic Rules of
Parliamentary Procedure

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1. The rights of the organization
supersede the rights of individual
members.
2. All members are equal and
their rights are equal.

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3. A quorum must be present to
do business.
4. The majority rules.
5. Silence is consent.

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6. Two-thirds vote rule
7. One question at a time and
one speaker at a time
8. Debatable motions must
receive full debate.

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9. Once a question is decided, it is
not in order to bring up the same
motion.
10. Personal remarks in debate
are always out of order.

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Remember this:
“A meeting without structure is
like sailing without compass –
you spend a lot of time getting
nowhere!

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Thank you!