All 11 Uses
legislature
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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
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- I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education.†
Chpt 5legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- As a result of this, the Legislature designated three cities to be voted upon by the citizens of the state as the permanent seat of government.†
Chpt 6legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- I found that about a year previous to my going to Tuskegee some of the coloured people who had heard something of the work of education being done at Hampton had applied to the state Legislature, through their representatives, for a small appropriation to be used in starting a normal school in Tuskegee.†
Chpt 7
- This request the Legislature had complied with to the extent of granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.†
Chpt 7
- First, the State Legislature of Alabama increased its annual appropriation from two thousand dollars to three thousand dollars; I might add that still later it increased this sum to four thousand five hundred dollars a year.†
Chpt 12
- The effort to secure this increase was led by the Hon. M.F. Foster, the member of the Legislature from Tuskegee.†
Chpt 12
- Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.†
Chpt 14
- The Alabama Legislature was in session in Montgomery at this time.
Chpt 17 *
- Just before the arrival of the President's party the Legislature arrived, headed by the governor and other state officials.†
Chpt 17
- The state Legislature, including the House of Delegates and the Senate, also passed a unanimous vote to attend in a body.†
Chpt 17
- In the presence of hundreds of coloured people, many distinguished white citizens, the City Council, the state Legislature, and state officials, I delivered my message, which was one of hope and cheer; and from the bottom of my heart I thanked both races for this welcome back to the state that gave me birth.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(legislature) a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)