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legislature::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
| Type of | assembly |
| Has types | united states congress, us congress, senate, u.s. congress, parliament, duma, house, legislative council, congress, diet |
| Derivation | legislate |
Examples of legislature
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The legislature cut over $4 in spending for every $1 dollar raised in new taxes.
From the thenewstribune.com
A few facts in particular drove the legislature to tighten the regs this summer.
From the time.com
Historically, the legislature micromanaged the 43,000-student university system.
From the businessweek.com
The legislature has also created an additional position on the Court of Appeals.
From the kansas.com
Where was the publicity when the legislature was considering such an inane bill?
From the dailyherald.com
Harwell said she does not expect Todd to resign from the legislature altogether.
From the tennessean.com
That leaves the remaining tangle of dysfunction, the hyper-partisan legislature.
From the economist.com
The Governator relied on using that referendum system to bypass the legislature.
From the economist.com
Its aim should be to re-invest the legislature with the credibility it once had.
From the economist.com
- Persons who make or amend or repeal laws
- A legislature is a type of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. ...
- A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws; A legislative building
- (Legislatures) are known by many names including parliament, senate, or congress.
- To dream that you are a member of a legislature, foretells you will be vain of your possessions and will treat members of your family unkindly. You will have no real advancement.
- The branch of government that makes laws, known in Ireland as the Oireachtas (See also Executive, Judiciary, Oireachtas and Separation of powers)
- A group of persons given the power and responsibility to make laws for a country or state. The Parliament in Great Britain and the federal Congress in the United States are both legislatures.
- The elected, representative branch of State government formed by the constitution to make and revise laws, approve certain executive nominations, and propose constitutional changes.
- 14. (1) Subject to paragraph two of this Term, the Constitution of the Legislature of Newfoundland as it existed immediately prior to the sixteenth day of February, 1934, shall, subject to these Terms and the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1940, continue as the Constitution of the Legislature of the ...
