Deliberative Quotes
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Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member
indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe
Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.
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More Deliberative Quotes
The greatest deliberative body in the world?has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.
Margaret Chase Smith— 1950 'Declaration of Conscience'address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by SenatorJoseph R McCarthy.
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. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament .
Edmund Burke— Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1834).
The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.
john danforth— Page 154 (Faith and Politics (2006))
Women had prerogative in deliberative sessions touching either peace-government, or martial affairs.
— On the custom of the ancient Britons; Selden's Works, Vol. 3, p. 10, cited in Chorlton v. Lings (1868), L. R. 4 C. P. 389.
The privilege of committing for contempt is inherent in every deliberative body invested with authority by the Constitution.
— Lord Denman, C.J., Stockdale v. Hansard (1837), 3 St. Tr. (N. S.) 854.
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. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament .
— Speech to the Electors of Bristol (1774-11-03); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1834).
