Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: consensus and majority vote

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

on 7/18/2002 10:55 PM, Gary.Stewart at Gary.Stewart [at] xtra.co.nz wrote:

> actually I disagree with your disagreement, I think 'parliamentary' type
> decision making came in when the people 'deciding' were no longer part of a
> community where everybody new each other and had to live with the
> consequences of their decisions

This is true, I should have said the codification of Roberts Rules of Order
was done during the rage for lists and common definitions. I was referring
to the written form that most people try to understand -- the original RRO
will drive you to drink in distinctions that are far, far from the concerns
or experience of most of us who have not had to cope with the intricacies of
parliamentary discourse. If you watch the modern day version of the
discussion in the House of Lords, you get the gist. It's on one of the
C-Span channels regularly.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org




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