legislating

Noun

Meaning

of Legislate

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

legislation legislative legislate lawmaking aldermanic legislated

Hypernyms

government administration governance governing government activity

Hyponyms

passage enactment criminalization decriminalization criminalisation decriminalisation

Phrases with the word

be self-legislating self-legislating

Examples

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. David E. Kelley

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country. Ellen Wilkinson

I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy. Sandra Day O'Connor

They see a race of law-makers legislating without knowing what their laws are about. Peter Kropotkin

The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature. Michele Bachmann

Close letter words and terms

legislate legislated legislateur's group legislation legislation of the country legislational