Both Uses of
legislature
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The office of justice of the peace I try'd a little, by attending a few courts, and sitting on the bench to hear causes; but finding that more knowledge of the common law than I possess'd was necessary to act in that station with credit, I gradually withdrew from it, excusing myself by my being oblig'd to attend the higher duties of a legislator in the Assembly.†
- They are then, so far as they relate to you, the law of the land, for the king is the LEGISLATOR OF THE COLONIES.†
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Definition:
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(legislature) a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws