They are sensible that their habits in life have not been such as to give them those acquired endowments, without which, in a
deliberative assembly, the greatest natural abilities are for the most part useless; and that the influence and weight, and superior acquirements of the merchants render them more equal to a contest with any spirit which might happen to infuse itself into the public councils, unfriendly to the manufacturing and trading interests.
That means committing to revoke Article 50 to allow a Labour government time to implement a green-investment, anti-austerity policy agenda in tune with the party's progressive internationalism, while simultaneously organizing a Citizens'
Deliberative Assembly to formulate the question(s) to be put to voters in a second Brexit referendum.
That means committing to revoke Article 50 to allow a Labour government time to implement a green-investment, anti-austerity policy agenda in tune with the party's progressive internationalism, while simultaneously organising a Citizens'
Deliberative Assembly to formulate the question(s) to be put to voters in a second Brexit referendum.
Just like any
deliberative assembly, our legislature is no stranger to paralysis, politicking, deadlock, waste of resources.
Apart from critical and innovative thinking required, the would-be senator should be able to present and defend his or her ideas in the Senate as a
deliberative assembly, and in the arena of public opinion.
That's not a
deliberative assembly of the people's representatives," said the veteran politician, who seeks a return in the Upper Chamber in the 2019 elections.
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a
deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.