All 3 Uses of
legislature
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- In busier periods of the year these bills disappear, and the houses swarm with legislators.†
Chpt 16
- There are legislators in the parlours, in the first floor, in the second, in the third, in the garrets; the small apartments reek with the breath of deputations and delegates.†
Chpt 16
- Now, show me the distinction between such pilfering as this, and picking a man's pocket in the street: unless, indeed, it be, that the legislature has a regard for pocket-handkerchiefs, and leaves men's brains, except when they are knocked out by violence, to take care of themselves.'†
Chpt 48 *
Definition:
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(legislature) a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws