The phrase "a deliberative assembly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of individuals who come together to discuss and make decisions on specific issues or policies, often in a formal setting.
Example: "The town council is a deliberative assembly that meets monthly to discuss community issues and make decisions."
Alternatives: "a decision-making body" or "a legislative assembly".
The will of such a deliberative assembly is expressed by its action on proposals submitted for consideration in the form of motions or resolutions offered by members.
"The party cannot be an organisation of executives who are subject to a single discipline and at the same time a deliberative assembly of people free to present their opinions and pursue their interests," he said.
These confederations were presided over by a common head, the rector scholarium, and the different nations were represented by their consiliarii, a deliberative assembly with which the rector habitually took counsel.
Writing in The Conversation ('The proposed Senate voting change will hurt Australian democracy'), political scientist John Dryzek hits the nail on the head: "Australia's federal parliament is today … not a deliberative assembly [but] rather a theatre of expression where politicians from different sides talk past each other in mostly ritual performance.
Members convened annually at the NCAA Convention in a deliberative assembly requiring traditional majority votes to pass legislation or two-thirds votes to change constitutional or more important provisions.
But when Washington appeared on the floor of the Senate to seek advice about pending negotiations with American Indian tribes, the surprised senators proved themselves to be a contentious deliberative assembly, not an advisory board.
Its hero is Edmund Burke, the philosopher and MP who (rather bravely) informed his 18th-century constituents that he was not an agent for their narrow interests, but merely their elected representative in a national, deliberative assembly.
By chance a book called The American Senate by MacNeil and Baker (Oxford, $29.95) thumped through my letterbox this week, and it reveals once again what a bizarre body "the world's greatest deliberative assembly" – as they choose to call themselves – seems to be.
He soon returned to politics, however, and in 1800 he became president of the Tribunat, the deliberative assembly opposed to the Napoleonic Code.
The General Assembly is the main deliberative assembly of the United Nations.
The NEA has close to 3 million members, and its convention is dubbed "the world's largest deliberative assembly," with 7,000 delegates.
