Robert's Rules of Order

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Image:Book cover - robert's rules of order orig 1876 edition.jpg Robert's Rules of Order and Parliamentary Procedure is a book containing rules of order, intended to be adopted by a deliberative assembly as its parliamentary authority.

The book is designed for use in ordinary societies rather than legislative assemblies, and it is the most commonly adopted parliamentary authority among societies in the United States. The book claims to be a codification of the Common Law of Parliamentary Procedure; however, courts have ruled it is only persuasive and not binding upon assemblies that have not formally adopted it.

The first edition of the book was published in February, 1876 by U.S. Army Major Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923); its procedures were loosely modeled after those used in the United States House of Representatives. Major Robert wrote the book after presiding over a church meeting and discovering that delegates from different areas of the country did not agree about proper procedure.

Through a family trust, and later through the Robert's Rules Association, several subsequent editions of Robert's work have been published; the current edition is Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, Tenth Edition (2000) (paperback ISBN 0-7382-0307-6; hardcover ISBN 0-7382-0384-X). Since the copyrights for several of the original editions have expired, numerous other books and manuals have been published incorporating "Robert's Rules of Order" as part of their titles, some of them based on those earlier editions.

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