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There's enough money right here in Maycomb County to sink a—how would you like to have a husband in the legislature?†
p. 77.3

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
Her father, after making his initial campaign, served in the state legislature for as long as he wished, without opposition.†
p. 77.7 *
"When I'm in the legislature we can't take midnight plunges," said Henry.†
p. 80.1
His children were in a position to know as children seldom are: when Atticus was in the legislature he met, loved, and married a Montgomery girl some fifteen years his junior; he brought her home to Maycomb and they lived in a new-bought house on the town's main street.†
p. 114.9
He took them to Montgomery with him if the legislature was in summer session; he took them to football games, to political meetings, to church, to the office at night if he had to work late.†
p. 116.1
Atticus was away in Montgomery in the legislature, Jem might as well have been with him for all she saw of him.†
p. 134.4
Those old mossbacks on the wall up there knew it—but now, instead of going about it through Congress and the state legislatures like we should, when we tried to do right we just made it easier for them to set up more hallways and more waiting—" Her father sat up and laughed.†
p. 240.8

legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws

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)