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NAP Home About NAP Parliamentary Procedure Definition Usage Parliamentary Basics Types of Rules Motions Discussion Presiding Fundamental Rights Learning More Professional Services NAP Online Store Products & Services Requests NAP Organization NAP Membership News Events National Parliamentarian Member Services		Parliamentary Basics: Fundamental Rights The rules of parliamentary law are constructed upon a careful balance of the rights: of the majority, of the minority, especially a strong minority (greater than one third), of individual members, of absentees, and of all these together. Fundamentally, under the rules of parliamentary law, a deliberative body is a free agent—free to do what it wants to do with the greatest measure of protection to itself and of consideration for the rights of its members.