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When ... [deliberating] ... Americans will be not encountering one another as consumers or coreligionists or even friends-but as citizens searching for common ground... in a common enterprise."-Ackerman and Fishkin 2 "Ideal deliberation aims to arrive at a rationally motivated consensus-to find reasons that are persuasive to all ... -Cohen3 "[D]eliberation allows people to discover latent public values that they have in common with others, and in the process to create new public values.Together, citizens begin to ... identify what they value most about the community, and to uncover goals and commitments that transcend their narrower self-interests.