Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Parliamentary Law. [ARTICLE]

Parliamentary Law.

No one man Is responsible for parliamentary law, It wis born of deliberative exigencies. Its rules, precedents and usages are contained neither In statutes nor court decisions and are only binding when a deliberative body chooses to make them so. Most of the rules now accepted had their origin in the English parliament Changes kayo been made to meet the needs of our legislative bodies, even qs changes were made in the English parliament—parliamentary law growing from the simple procedure of the Anglo S&xcn town moot to the more complicated deliberative machinery at today.