legislature

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. Edmund Burke

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Kin Hubbard

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler (novelist)

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do. Bernard Bailyn

Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers. Michele Bachmann

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments. John Marshall

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