But that process requires deliberation and reason and candor and a political decision-making system that brings all those qualities to the fore.
Trusting the existence of a selected group of wise men who are devoted to the collective good, and who are freed from ambition and self-interest because of their pursuit of truth, is as crude as the belief in a society where masses disappear and deliberation and reason control human's political choices" (CR, p. 163).
The government in Ottawa has made this decision after years of deliberation, for reasons that would seem to apply equally well in the United States.
On the moderate view, one does introduce into one's deliberations extra reason to serve compatriots, although one might still, all things considered, make the best choice by emigrating.
In order to come together as one nation behind our next president, whoever that may be, we have to move through these difficult days with reason, deliberation and abiding respect for the workings of our democracy.
Gillard said the election date allowed for the year to be one "not of fevered campaigning but of cool and reasoned deliberation".
She added that setting the election date "gives shape and order to the year, and enables it to be one not of fevered campaigning, but of cool and reasoned deliberation".
If an action is prescribed by popular will, on the other hand, then what's at stake is a free or voluntary course of action, decided on the basis of informed and reasoned deliberation.
"It gives shape and order to the year, and enables it to be one not of fevered campaigning, but of cool and reasoned deliberation," she said.
In fact, as Bublitz argued, "it is hard to conceive any conception of a legal subject in which the mind and mental capacities (e.g. acting from reasons, deliberation) are not among its necessary constitutive conditions" (2013, p. 242).
