legislature|legislatures in English
noun
['leg·is·la·ture || 'ledʒɪsleɪtʃə]
national lawmaking body of a country; branch of government authorized to make laws
Use "legislature|legislatures" in a sentence
1. Unicameral and Bicameral legislatures
2. Clearly, not all legislatures are impotent or dying institutions.
3. For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects
4. Althing, unicameral legislature of Iceland
5. Congress is a bicameral legislature.
6. The bill cleared the legislature.
7. These rulings compelled the reapportionment of the great majority of state legislatures.
8. Illinois legislature votes for impeachment efforts.
9. The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
10. A bicameral legislature has two houses.
11. He was elected to the state legislature.
12. They Addressed a petition to the legislature
13. Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Explaining Youths’ Relative Absence in Legislatures - Volume 54 Issue 2
14. En route to his inauguration, Lincoln addressed crowds and legislatures across the North.
15. Georgia General Assembly, is one of the largest state legislatures in the nation
16. The US Congress is a bicameral legislature.
17. The governor Bulldozed the law through the legislature
18. The Provisional and Territorial Legislatures further altered Clatsop County's boundaries in 1845 and 1853.
19. 19 In 18 southern legislatures asked northern states to pass legislation suppressing abolitionist publications.
20. 21 In 18 southern legislatures asked northern states to pass legislation suppressing abolitionist publications.
21. Gradually, absolute monarchies gave way to limited monarchies with legislatures or constitutions, or both.
22. Brock was elected to the state legislature.
23. They addressed a petition to the legislature.
24. After furious debate, the legislature defeated the bill.
25. The rubber-stamp legislature has not been consulted.