[Lnc-business] Happy Birthday

[Daniel Hayes]

Mr. Katz,

Your e-mail is well taken.   I took a moment of personal privilege tonight during my local NAP unit meeting to read it aloud.  If only our LP members take it so well.


Thank You,
Daniel Hayes
LNC Region 7 Alternate 

On May 02, 2016, at 08:05 AM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com> wrote:

Today is the birthday of someone who has had a large impact on our lives and the conduct of business in our party.

Today we celebrate the birth of a brigadier general (tombstone promotion) in the Civil War.  Born in 1837 in South Carolina, his family moved to Ohio out of opposition to slavery.  His father was President of Morehouse College, and he attended West Point (where Ben Carson claimed to have been offered a scholarship).  Following the war, he had a distinguished career as an engineer.

However, he is most notable for an incident which occurred as a newly-promoted military officer.  He was asked to preside over a church meeting, and performed very poorly.  Necessity being the mother of invention, he saw a need for a standardized and updated compilation of the rules of order, and resolved to write one. 

Henry Martyn Robert wrote that book, and included the following phrase in the preface:

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

This seems an important phrase for those of us who make it our life's goal to see the most of real liberty.  As we celebrate this important occasion, may your presiding officers be firm and fair, your minutes clear and accurate, and may the appeals be always in your favor.
 
Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)
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