All 4 Uses
legislature
in
The Declaration of Independence
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- He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.†
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.
*legislatures = elected government representatives
- For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.†
legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.†
legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
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)