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i don't think it's old as in not referenced anymore - i seem to recall the US Senate uses it as their rule book? or Heinlein sent me wrong...
by jgamman 10y ago
i don't think it's old as in not referenced anymore - i seem to recall the US Senate uses it as their rule book? or Heinlein sent me wrong...
- pjscott 10y agoOld as in "published in 1876". It's still widely used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_authority
- walshemj 10y agoAnd in the UK there is Citrines ABC of Chairmanship which plays a similar role. Unfortunetly both the UK and the USA executives "get up to naughty shit" as a MP (EX Whip and a candidate for the speaker ) said to me once in the bar at conference :-)