Sample sentences for LEGISLATURE

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Definition

a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws

The state legislature passed a law to increase the minimum wage, but the governor vetoed it while claiming it would reduce the number of entry-level jobs for young people.

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws

legislature = elected body that makes laws

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker
...if I didn't [defend him] I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws

The Alabama Legislature was in session in Montgomery at this time.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

legislatures = elected government representatives

Must the citizen even for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?
Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government

legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) has the power to create laws

Atticus's gone all day and sometimes half the night and off in the legislature and I don't know what—
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws

As if that were not enough, the state legislature was called into emergency session and Atticus left us for two weeks.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws

Furthermore, I couldn't help noticing that my father had served for years in the state legislature, elected each time without opposition,
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws

Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws

There was one odd thing, though, that I never understood: in spite of Atticus's shortcomings as a parent, people were content to re-elect him to the state legislature that year, as usual, without opposition.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws

They are then, so far as they relate to you, the law of the land, for the king is the LEGISLATOR OF THE COLONIES.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and National legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press on our behalf.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Declaration of Sentiments
He is pushed into a meeting of the legislature.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Although we may never know for sure: in the end, the Illinois legislature rejected the book plan.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
The English-Only movement continued the old censorship we had felt on the school playgrounds, but now the game had moved into the state legislatures.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry
Rene addressed a wildly cheering New Hampshire Legislature.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Them legislatures might just as well have hollered 'Hurray for Jeff Davis and the Southern Confederacy' for all the good it'll do them— and us.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
There were other wards in which the Democratic vote had been actually surpassed, and in two districts, members of the state legislature had been elected.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

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