The senate is only tenuously democratic, in the debased "one person, one vote" sense, because the quality of deliberation matters at least as much to the legitimacy of collective decisionmaking as does equality of political influence.
It also suggests that Mr. Bush's deliberations, no matter what decision they yield, are being influenced by more than political ideology and abstract morality.
Their prospects of influencing European deliberations, on matters that they care about such as hedge-fund regulation, have dwindled.
But while the ruling in the Espy case significantly expanded the concept of executive privilege, it explicitly established a limit: the claim of privilege cannot be used to shield deliberations on matters not related to the President's official functions or to criminal conduct by the President or his aides.
For instance, most of them rely on vernacular radio stations for farming-related information, yet these channels offer limited deliberations on matters climate change.
As a result of the management style of the 90's, the governance of APA was ill prepared for thoughtful deliberation on a matter as important as the torture issue.
The relevant statute provides that "[a] person commits the crime of murder in the first degree if he knowingly causes the death of another person after deliberation upon the matter". This charge seems quite improbable, even accepting the version of the facts most favorable to Brown's supporters, because it would be difficult to show that the officer deliberated before killing Brown.
The characterization of this deference within a person's deliberation is a matter of some dispute.
p191 9 The envoys said that they would report this to their people and, after deliberation upon the matter, return to Caesar in three days: they asked him not to move his camp nearer in the meanwhile.
First degree murder, punishable by death, is when someone "knowingly causes the death of another person after deliberation upon the matter".
