About The Word Legislature
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Legislature
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What's The Definition Of Legislature?
[n] persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Synonyms | Synonyms for Legislature: general assembly | law-makers | legislative assembly Related Terms | Find terms related to Legislature: act | advisory body | assembly | association | bench | board | body of advisers | borough council | brain trust | British Cabinet | cabinet | camarilla | chamber | city council | common council | concurrent resolution | conference | congress | constitution | consultative assembly | council | council fire | council of ministers | council of state | council of war | county council | court | deliberative assembly | diet | directory | divan | enaction | enactment | joint resolution | junta | kitchen cabinet | lawmaking | legislation | parish council | passage | passing | privy council | resolution | Sanhedrin | soviet | staff | syndicate | synod | tribunal | US Cabinet See Also | assembly | authorities | Congress | diet | government | house | legislative council | parliament | regime | senate | United States Congress Legislature In Webster's Dictionary \Leg"is*la`ture\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]`t[-u]r; 135),
n. [Cf. F. l['e]gislature.]
The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power
to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of
the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. --Sir M.
Hale.
Note: The legislature of Great Britain consists of the Lords
and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is
necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The
legislatures of most of the United States consist of
two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of
the governor is required to give their acts the force
of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two
houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned
his objections.
\Legislature\, n. Note: The legislatures of some of the more important states having constitutional government are as follows, the general name (or a translation of it) of the legislative body collectively being given under the heading legislature, or parliament: |
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