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Listening - One Writer's Beginnings - Chpt 1
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She must have earned next to nothing; Mississippi then as now was the nation's lowest-ranking state economically, and our legislature has always shown apainfully loud reluctance to give money to public education.†

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
She also proposed a spelling match between the fourth grade at Davis School and the Mississippi Legislature, who went through with it; and that told the Legislature.†
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She also proposed a spelling match between the fourth grade at Davis School and the Mississippi Legislature, who went through with it; and that told the Legislature.†

Definitions:

(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)