legislate

in a sentence

The council voted to legislate new zoning rules for residential areas.

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.  (source) Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence, 1776

But they will immediately come to life again in the society they have legislated for.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

They understood that they could not legislate the future, for they had no idea what it would hold, or what society would demand for its future liberties.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990

The whiteness of a man's skin or the misguided customs of his land do not exonerate him from hideous deeds, no matter how they have been rationalized and legislated into feigned legitimacy.†  (source) Alexs Pate, Amistad, 1997

But in the same letter he declared that "rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, [I] would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean."†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

"A growing number of groups who represent narrow social and political interests;' Nugent warned, "have set their sights on our industry in an effort to legislate behavioral change."†  (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001

But marital fidelity is commoner there than it is on Earth; it simply is not legislated.†  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road, 1963

Is this number safe for the limited power of legislating for the United States?†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

Don't you think, lieutenant, that the police have enough to do without trying to legislate our morality and personal lifestyles?†  (source) J. D. Robb, Naked in Death, 1995

We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the Government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, I Am Prepared to Die, 1964

It's a tiresome business, this legislating!†  (source) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.†  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government, 1849