Deliberative assembly

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A deliberative assembly is an organization, comprising of members, that uses a parliamentary procedure for making decisions.

The following are common types of deliberative assemblies:

The Mass Meeting
The Local Assembly of an Organized Society
The Convention
The Legislative Body
The Board

A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is subordinate to another deliberative assembly.

A deliberative assembly may have different classes of members. Common classes are voting members (also known as regular members), who have the right to vote, ex-officio members, and honorary members.

A deliberative assembly may, or may not be, representative. For example, a board is composed of elected representatives; but there are no representatives in a mass meeting of members.

Robert's Rules of Order describes certain characteristics of a deliberative assembly, such as each member having an equal vote and the fact that the group meets to determine courses of action to be taken in the name of the entire group.

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