The Imladris Council was set up that way as well. The leaders of all the various groups, the Healers, the Kitchen, the Stables, the Artisans, the Bards, et cetera, each had a voice, and Lord Elrond, Erestor, myself and a couple of others would help facilitate making decisions and mediate between the groups.

Kaiba and Senku's thoughts on the subject seem quite in keeping with this, as well, which I find quite heartening.

Let us talk to the other current members, set up a meeting time, and determine how we want to proceed? No matter what the decision is: Stay, Go, Reorganize, we do owe it to ourselves and the other passengers to make it a formal decision, and to invite comment, in my opinion.

[He smiled at her, a bit rueful.] I very much disagreed with Tony's insistence on closed door meetings, so I would vote against such a thing, especially in this situation. [He does not actually expect Eva to disagree, he's just being open.]