Noun
The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. Ronald Reagan
The world is not going to be saved by legislation. William Howard Taft
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. Denis Diderot
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) Franklin D. Roosevelt
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. Henry David Thoreau
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. Phyllis Schlafly