Have you ever had a person talk out of turn, raise their hand at a bad time or even ignore you when you ask them to stand up? Why so uncultured and brash? It is because they did not understand parliamentary procedures. These rules help to keep a meeting on time, on agenda, and safe from rouge individuals who wish to derail the meeting with foolish antics. A guidebook can help your organization stand out by providing a baseline framework for things such as member elections, payment of dues, proper motion procedures, organization meeting agendas, and other issues that may arise as a result of serving numerous amounts of people.

This work is a complete manual of parliamentary law and practice. It aims to provide in readily accessible form and understandable terms the rules of order by which popular assemblies are governed. It is at once and in the strictest sense a handbook for both the inexperienced learner and the experienced practitioner in parliamentary bodies. The following points distinguish it from other works of its kind: 1. It is systematic and concise in its presentation of rules and principles, each standing out as a distinct sentence on the page; and forms, rules, effects, etc., are clearly distinguished by a suitable arrangement of type. 2. The first part of the book provides a carefully outlined syllabus of parliamentary law freed from any needless verbiage of explanation. 3. The second part furnishes abundant explanatory notes, giving reasons and illustrations in parliamentary practice for the less experienced and the inexperienced parliamentarian. 4. The third part of the book gives specific directions for successfully conducting a club or class for the study and practice of parliamentary law, while the fourth part adds a hundred review questions as an aid to mastery. 5. The book supplies model forms of expression suitable to be employed in all parliamentary practice. 6. A unique and simple graphic classification of motions is furnished such as will in itself answer on a single page over four hundred parliamentary questions. There is also given a luminous single-page diagram of parliamentary motions. 7. A system of thumb indexing makes the information of the book immediately accessible, -a matter of great moment to one presiding over an impatient assembly. The book is the outgrowth of over ten years of experience in teaching parliamentary law to students in normal schools and colleges, and is designed as a textbook for use wherever the subject is studied or practiced.