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deliberative

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de·lib·er·a·tive  (d-lb-rtv, -r--tv)
adj.
1. Assembled or organized for deliberation or debate: a deliberative legislature.
2. Characterized by or for use in deliberation or debate.
de·liber·ative·ly adv.
de·liber·ative·ness n.
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Adj.1.deliberative - involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body"
thoughtful - exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper"


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When the people in general do not partake of the deliberative power, but certain persons chosen for that purpose, who govern according to law; this also, like the first, is an oligarchy.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
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.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
The first is, that the convention must have enjoyed, in a very singular degree, an exemption from the pestilential influence of party animosities the disease most incident to deliberative bodies, and most apt to contaminate their proceedings.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
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