founded in 1986 in Riverside, California

    [affectionately known as RSP]

Check us out!

Join us the second Tuesday of each month from 6:00 to 7:30 PM Pacific Time online

Zoom info:

Passcode: 959932

Meeting ID: 858 8348 2401

There are now Seven Roberts Rules study clubs from New York to Brisbane Australia!

They’re all monthly specialty Toastmasters clubs, and they’re all on ZOOM. . The two oldest Toastmasters study clubs were chartered in 1984 (CA) and 1997 (MN).

Active Toastmasters and guests who are not Toastmasters can login on ZOOM and check out each club’s study program. The active Toastmasters fill out an app as a “dual” member and pay April and October dues just like in their home clubs.

Drop in on these clubs! No reservation needed!

NEW for 2026! FIVE (so far) Parlipro Jeopardy Games that RSP created!

Click on the NEW link below to see the FFA Parliamentary Procedure Basics 15:44 minute video. IT’S GREAT! 

https://youtu.be/FfnBGolKmbM

The only squawk is that the Chair raps the gavel too many times. In RONR, it’s only twice.

Also, check out this Basics of Parlipro from CSAP!

file:///Users/Padeye/Desktop/MY%20PARLIPRO%20CLUBS/2021-In-Brief-Lesson-Ch-1-7-Ch-8-11%20(1)%20copy.pdf

Just copy and paste this long URL into your browser to get to a 53-slide comprehensive review of the BASICS of PARLIPRO courtesy of the California State Association of Parliamentarians (CSAP).

.…and check out this from FCCLA and FBLA competitions!

This Cheat Sheet for high school Parlipro Teams from FCCLA and FBLA is designed so they can create their 15-minute mock meetings which must include Main, Subsidiary, Privileged, and Incidental motions!

Every Parliamentary Procedure Study Group should search for both organizations in their state and contact them to provide coaching and assistance to these wonderful Parlipro teams. At each Parlipro Club’s Zoom meetings, these teams can be invited to go into a BREAKOUT ROOM to practice their 15-minute skits and get feedback from club members.

Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) are national organizations dedicated to leadership and skills-building for high school-age students.

Both organizations nationwide have Parliamentary Procedure skit competitions in which the teams prepare and present a 15 minute “skit” of a mock meeting with many agenda items such as main motions, amendments, incidental motions, privileged motions that volunteer judges score them on. Based upon their total point scores, teams earn bronze, silver, or gold medals.

NEW RSP website addition 2026!

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/roberts-rules-faqs

The Riverside Society of Parliamentarians has created ParliPro games on Wordwall.net Actually, when you make a game on Wordwall.net, you get three games that use all the content on your game. You can spin the wheel, open numbered boxes, or deal random cards. Play around with it. You’ll get it!

YOU and members of the seven Toastmasters Parlipro clubs listed above can practice working with MOTIONS and master the vocabulary.

The QR code on the newsletter below takes you to all three games shown there. The R-S-D-A-V acronym in the center of the wheel is related to any Motions Chart. Do you need to be Recognized? Does your motion require a Second? Is your motion Debatable? Is it Amendable? What is the Vote needed for passage? R-S-D-A-V!

Spin the wheel. Talk about the parliamentary item, give an example, tell whether it is a Main, Subsidiary, Incidental, or Privileged motion. Use the games for Table Topics. If you’re not familiar with these classifications, reference the tinted pages in RONR. Some Motions Charts have M, S, I, and P to look for.

You can spin the wheel with the spin feature or just grab it with a finger. There is a delete feature so that you don’t land on the same item again. Smart!

On your device, scroll down below the WHEEL to get to OPEN the BOX and RANDOM CARDS.

 

The 200-page IN BRIEF book is really all you need to get going!

If you need the NEW 12th edition of Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised [RONR], go to the National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP) and get the edition that is spiral bound. It is much easier to flip through. Order from their “store” without being a member.

Your organization’s parliamentary authority as listed in the bylaws

Both books are available for quick and easy download in e-Reader format at Amazon.com

• civic and fraternal clubs • church boards • fraternities and sororities • homeowners associations • PTA groups • political organizations

• Run effective meetings by maintaining ORDER and preside with AUTHORITY
• HAVE GAVEL, WILL TRAVEL! We’re available to conduct free Beginner’s Workshops for your organization.

contact: judd3@aol.com and put RSP in the subject line

Every District parliamentarian should be invited to join. What do we say every year in January? Get ready to TRAIN YOUR SUCCESSOR. A District Parliamentarian stepping down can now easily introduce a successor to these dynamic ParliPro clubs for training.

Go to Wordwall.net, [it’s FREE], create a user name and password, go to COMMUNITY on the top tool bar and search ParliPro games.

Check this out!

Our vintage Roberts Rules of Order book collection.

Brief History of Parliamentary Procedure

RSP’s Collection of CUSHING’S MANUALS

Luther Stearns Cushing (1803-1853) published his parliamentary procedure guide in 1844 thirty-two years before Henry M. Robert published his first Roberts Rules of Order.

The books are about 240 pages and are 4″ wide x 8″ tall

Here are pix of the editions in RSP’s library:

Mr. Cushing was born on June 22 in 1803 and died on his birthday just 53 years later!

Quotes:

“I only wish I had lived long enough to see a truly bitchen website such as this!“

Henry Martyn Robert

“Me, too.”

Luther Stearns Cushing

“Same here.”

Ralph Smedley, founder of Toastmasters

author of two biographies of Henry Martyn Robert