All 4 Uses of
legislature
in
The Scarlet Letter
- He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil.†
Chpt Intr. *
- At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.†
Chpt 7
- The period was hardly, if at all, earlier than that of our story, when a dispute concerning the right of property in a pig not only caused a fierce and bitter contest in the legislative body of the colony, but resulted in an important modification of the framework itself of the legislature.†
Chpt 7
- For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(legislature) a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws