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Re:Robert's Rules of Order (1876) by Animats on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:24AM (#23711105)
The whole point of Roberts Rules of Order is that the membership is in charge. Motions, after being discussed and amended, eventually come down to a vote of the group. That's the basic mechanism of democracy.

Most nonprofit membership organizations in the US were run that way at one time. But since the 1960s, there are more self-perpetuating boards and other schemes for taking control away from the members. So people don't get practice at running a democracy. Which is a problem.

Re:Robert's Rules of Order (1876) by DanBC on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:15AM (#23711396)
> the membership is in charge. Motions, after being discussed and amended, eventually come down to a vote of the group

Strictly speaking, this could be a subset of the group, so long as that subset is quorate. For some groups this quorate level is going to be a surprisingly small number of people.