The Senate is proud to be a deliberative body, unique in all the world.

And yet, despite those factors (or perhaps because of them) the Senate is widely considered to be the greatest deliberative body in the world.

In theory, that makes the Senate a great deliberative body.

A typical deliberative body can only operate with at most a few thousand members.

The "world's greatest deliberative body" often cannot deliberate at all.

The council is a deliberative legislative body whose members are elected.

The Senate has been described as "the greatest deliberative body on earth."

By contrast, voters in a Senate race are choosing members of a deliberative body.

The conference was only a deliberative body and resolutions passed were not binding.

Well, maybe you know what a deliberative body of Frenchmen is like.