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legislature | American Dictionary

legislature
noun[ C ]
us/ˈledʒ·əsˌleɪ·tʃər/
politics & government
an elected group of people who have the power to make and change laws in a state or country

legislature | Business English

legislature
noun[ C ]
 GOVERNMENT, LAWuk /ˈledʒɪslətʃʊər/ us /-tʃɚ/
an organization consisting of people who have been elected to make laws for a state or a country:
Republican leaders in the legislature said they will appeal the court decision.
the legislature approves/enacts/passes sthA state-wide smoking ban in all public buildings was approved by the legislature several years ago.
It's up to the state legislature to enact the budget.

Examples of legislature

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Thus, the leverage of the legislature may be higher, but adaptation by courts may be more efficient.
Let us turn now to the analysis of government formation in this hypothetical set of legislatures.
With previous experiences, legislators had opportunities to accumulate expertise and incentives to organize legislatures in ways that relied on expertise.
The legislature was hobbled by the near-monopoly of seats enjoyed by the ruling coalition before the 1996 elections.
So long as judges prevented the legislature from encroaching too much on private rights in the name of the public, the process had worked splendidly.
They did not seek to build state legislatures capable of deliberating and enacting complex public policy.
As elected members of the legislature, elected representatives are expected to represent their voters in the process of lawmaking.
Every modern democracy has elected legislatures and political parties, each of which is a vehicle for a specific type of representation.
Nor have these changes made the executive branch any more accountable to the popularly elected legislature than it was before.
However, despite its overwhelming majority of 122 out of 182 seats in the legislature, the party found governing more difficult than getting elected.
This meant that a state legislature could, if it wished, itself select the electors.
If this problem is not solved, too many parties will be competing with the result that several parties are shut out of the legislature.
First, existing studies do not make clear why the factors identified increase or decrease the number of laws produced by legislatures.
Western donor aid agencies must justify their programmes to legislatures and citizens back home.
The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states.
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Collocations withlegislature

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These are words often used in combination with legislature.

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democratic legislature
Executive dominance remained obvious in a democratic legislature with four out of five government bills adopted.
elected legislature
This is a classic problem that an electedlegislature and president have with the bureaucracy.
national legislature
The nationallegislature is a bicameral parliament.
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