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leg·isla·tive branch

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. legislative branchnoun

    the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

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  1. legislative branchnoun

    The branch of government which is concerned with the making of laws

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  1. legislative branch

    The legislative branch is one of the three divisions of government that functions to make laws, represent the citizens, and balance the power of the other two branches. This branch, often made up of elected officials, is responsible for creating and passing legislation, confirming or rejecting presidential nominations, and has significant powers of scrutiny and investigation. Examples include the Parliament in the UK and the Congress in the USA.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of legislative branch in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of legislative branch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of legislative branch in a Sentence

  1. Trey Gowdy:

    The legislative branch’s constitutional toolbox seems inadequate to uphold out task in seeking the truth.

  2. Ted Cruz:

    I want to reiterate the fact that I'm not a senator, in case anyone was worried about that, i would never run for the legislative branch.

  3. House Judiciary chairman:

    And its not up to anybody from the executive branch to tell the legislative branch how to conduct our business.

  4. Paul Ryan:

    We've talked about the Constitution, Article 1 on the Constitution, the separation of powers, he feels very strongly, actually, that under President Obama's watch, President Obama stripped a lot of power away from the Constitution, away from the legislative branch of government, and we want to reset the balance of power so that people and the Constitution are rightfully restored.

  5. Peter Shane:

    Congress's vote, even if vetoed, would solidify any court's understanding that the so-called emergency is really part of an end-run around a legislative branch that is unconvinced an emergency exists, that refused to fund the wall, and that is constitutionally in charge of federal spending.


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