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Definitions for legislative branch
leg·isla·tive branch
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Princeton's WordNet
legislative branchnoun
the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating
Wiktionary
legislative branchnoun
The branch of government which is concerned with the making of laws
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of legislative branch in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of legislative branch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of legislative branch in a Sentence
The legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that.
This is a question of where you stand as it relates to the constitutional authorities of the legislative branch and what they're working on is purely a distraction.
While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will, his proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected. No president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally.
Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.
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.
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