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style="background-image: url('https://robertsrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/HMR-WestPoint-Entry.jpg')" > </div> </div> </div> <div class="oval-intro-section"> <div class="oval-intro-section-shape"> <img src="https://robertsrules.com/wp-content/themes/roberts-rules-association/dist/images/section-oval.svg" /> </div> <div class="oval-intro-section-text"> <h5 class="oval-intro-section-text__headline"> Henry Martyn Robert was an engineering officer in the regular Army. Without warning he was asked to preside over a public meeting being held in a church in his community and realized that he did not know how. </h5> <div class="oval-intro-section-text__paragraph"> <p>He tried anyway and his embarrassment was supreme. This event, which may seem familiar to many readers, left him determined never to attend another meeting until he knew something of parliamentary law.</p> <p>Ultimately, he discovered and studied the few books then available on the subject. From time to time, due to his military duties, he was transferred to various parts of the United States, where he found virtual parliamentary anarchy, since each member from a different part of the country had differing ideas of correct procedure. To bring order out of chaos, he decided to write <em>Robert’s Rules of Order</em>, as it came to be called (see chart of editions below).</p> <p>The twelfth, current, edition has been brought about through a process of keeping the book up to date with the growth of parliamentary procedure. 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