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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.