Definitions for Legislature
ˈlɛdʒ ɪsˌleɪ tʃərleg·is·la·ture

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makersnoun

   persons who make or amend or repeal laws

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. legislaturenoun

   A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.

2. legislaturenoun

   A legislative building.

3. Etymology: 1676, from stem of legislator + -ure, cognate with législature

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Legislaturenoun

   The power that makes laws.

   Etymology: from legislator, Latin.

   Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is or can be made. Matthew Hale, Com. Law.

   In the notion of a legislature is implied a power to change, repeal, and suspend laws in being, as well as to make new laws. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 16.

   By the supreme magistrate is properly understood the legislative power; but the word magistrate seeming to denote a single person, and to express the executive power, it came to pass that the obedience due to the legislature was, for want of considering this easy distinction, misapplied to the administration. Jonathan Swift, Sentiments of a Ch. of England Man.

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1. Legislature

   A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as primary legislation. In addition, legislatures may observe and steer governing actions, with authority to amend the budget involved. The members of a legislature are called legislators. In a democracy, legislators are most commonly popularly elected, although indirect election and appointment by the executive are also used, particularly for bicameral legislatures featuring an upper chamber.

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1. legislature

   A legislature is a governing body of government with the power to make, change, or repeal laws. Through an established decision-making process, such as voting, the members of the legislature deliberate on various issues, formulate policies, and regulate public affairs. Legislatures can be unicameral, having one chamber, or bicameral, having two chambers, depending on the country's political system.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Legislaturenoun

   the body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. lgislature.]

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1. Legislature

   A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and other money bills. Legislatures are known by many names, the most common being parliament and congress, although these terms also have more specific meanings. In parliamentary systems of government, the legislature is formally supreme and appoints a member from its house as the prime minister which acts as the executive. In a presidential system, according to the separation of powers doctrine, the legislature is considered an independent and coequal branch of government along with both the judiciary and the executive. The primary components of a legislature are one or more chambers or houses: assemblies that can debate and vote upon bills. A legislature with only one house is called unicameral. A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as an upper house and a lower house, which often differ in duties, powers, and the methods used for the selection of members. Much rarer have been tricameral legislatures; the Massachusetts Governor's Council still exists, but the most recent national example existed in the waning years of caucasian-minority rule in South Africa.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LEGISLATURE

   From Lat. _lego_, to bring together, and _latro_, to bark or bluster; possibly from _lex_, law, and _latens_, unknown. Hence, a company of men brought together to bluster, or a company of law makers who know nothing about law.

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1. legislature

   A type of socialist unity government created and formed by representation from every socialist political party elected to government and a proportionate number of socialist independent politicians elected to government within a country or a form of local, regional, national, european or international unity government united and each represented in the unity government cabinet to work together to create legislation in order of the priority of optimum health, democracy, human rights, right to life, civil rights, ethical, fair, just and moral shared prosperity of all people in the country or area of unity governmental authority, stability, unity government, solidarity, cohesion, animal rights, right to housing, right to education, right to parent, right to free preschool education, right to a standard of living, right to internet access, economic stability, financial stability, equal rights, equal opportunities, employment rights, childrens rights, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, united partnership, multi-party working, community empowerment systems, equal distribution of income, wealth, fairness and justness across society, the country, europe and the world and contribute to the cocreation of global and national peace agreements, peace treaties, the universes truth and a fair, just and transparent system of checks and balances.

   The legislature are united in their efforts to create the world we all choose in our hearts knowing we are all on this earth together and are morally and ethically obliged to work together.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 5, 2020  

How to pronounce Legislature?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Legislature in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Legislature in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Legislature in a Sentence

1. Evan Nappen:

   New Jersey's gun control laws are out of control, new Jersey's clearly evident they need serious reform. The legislature is really ultimately to blame.

2. John Avlon:

   But Republicans controlled the state legislature. They weren't about to make the congressional districts more representative of the actual electorate. No. So they went to work drawing districts that artificially increased their own advantage, connecting suburban districts with sprawling, rural communities, consolidating minority-heavy areas and generally painting Texas red.

3. Alberto Islas:

   It will have to pass through the legislature, and that will be the slow part.

4. Henry McMaster:

   We asked the legislature to provide a mechanism where if the drugs are not available then [ the method of execution ] could default back to the other means, but that has not been passed, i hope that Director Sterling is able to get whatever Chrysti Shain needs to comply with the law of South Carolina.

5. Charmaine Borg:

   Don't walk into the legislature with your head down as if you don't belong - you do belong.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Legislature
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Legislature
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Legislature
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislature
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Legislature
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Legislature
8. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=Legislature