Deliberation

meeting or inquiry of concerned persons or advisors for the purpose of deliberation, discussion or decision on some matter or action

Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options, usually prior to voting. Deliberation emphasizes the use of logic and reason as opposed to power-struggle, creativity, or dialog.

Deliberation

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  • Because deliberation requires the public exercise of capacities for autonomy legitimacy derives in the first instance from citizens’ participation in decision making. In deliberation citizens govern themselves and give themselves rules for common life.
    • James Bohman, in Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy, p. 151
  • There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
  • Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
  • What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
  • In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
 
Jesse Jackson:Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
 
John R. O'Neill:When Britain entered World War II in 1939, it expected men from around its empire to join the fight. After much deliberation Gandhi organized another protest against the government. He called it “Quit India”.
 
Peter Yarrow: We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
  • Millions Knives:If you just keep saving the butterflies the spiders will die. But...wanting to save both is a contradiction. What would you rather do? Keep deliberating? The butterfly will be eaten in the meantime.

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