All 13 Uses
legislature
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Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
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- Previously he had worked only at odd jobs as ferry man, surveyor, postmaster, storekeeper, rail-splitter, farm hand, and the like; and now, without any other preparation, he was looking for election to the state legislature.†
Subsection 2legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- In the summer of 1860, for a friend who wanted to prepare a campaign biography, he wrote in the third person a short sketch of his political life up to that time: 1832—defeated in an attempt to be elected to the legislature;†
Subsection 2
- 1834—elected to the legislature "by the highest vote cast for any candidate";†
Subsection 2
- He early became a party wheelhorse, a member of the Illinois State Whig Committee, and in the legislature a Whig floor leader.†
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- Running for re-election to the legislature in 1836, he submitted to a newspaper a statement of his views which included the following: "I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.†
Subsection 3
- Severe laws against free Negroes and runaway slaves were in force when Lincoln went to the Springfield legislature, and there is no evidence of any popular movement to liberalize them.†
Subsection 4
- While Lincoln was serving his second term in the Illinois legislature the slavery question was discussed throughout the country.†
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- State legislatures began toexpress themselves upon the matter.†
Subsection 4legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- The Illinois legislature turned the subject over to a joint committee, of which Lincoln and his Sangamon County colleague, Dan Stone, were members.†
Subsection 4legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- The motto of the leading Republican paper of Missouri, Frank Blair's 6 The Illinois constitutional convention of 1847 had adopted and submitted to a popular referendum a provision that instructed the legislature to pass laws prohibiting the immigration of colored persons.†
Subsection 4
- Douglas returned to the Senate only because the Democrats, who had skillfully gerrymandered the election districts, still held their majority in the state legislature.†
Subsection 4
- Fremont's action, Lincoln reported, had had an extremely unfavorable effect on the Kentucky legislature, and in the field a whole company of volunteers upon hearing it had thrown down their arms and disbanded.†
Subsection 6
- In public life he had always been an insignificant legislator whose votes were cast in concert with others and whose decisions in themselves had neither finality nor importance.†
Subsection 7legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) 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)