Crossword clues for legislature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legislature \Leg"is*la`ture\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]`t[-u]r; 135), n. [Cf. F. l['e]gislature.] The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of
the legislature, no law is, or can be, made.
--Sir M.
Hale.
Note: The legislature of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections.
Note: The legislatures of some of the more important states having constitutional government are as follows, the general name (or a translation of it) of the legislative body collectively being given under the heading legislature, or parliament: StateLegislature, or parliamentUpper House[colret]NameNumber of members -- how chosen or composed -- term of officeLower House[colret]NameNumber of members -- suffrage -- term of office
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ArgentinaNational CongressSenate30 -- 2 from each
provincew and 2 from capital -- 9 yearsHouse of
Deputies120 (1 to 33,000) -- Manhood -- 4 years
AustriaReichsrath BelgiumThe Chambers BrazilNational
Congress ChileNational Congress DenmarkRigsdag
FranceNational Assembly German EmpireImperial
legislature *Great BritainParliamentHouse of LordsAbout
600House of CommonsAbout 670 -- 7 years, or until
dissolution Greece HungaryOrz['a]g-gy["u]l['e]s
ItalyParliament JapanImperial Diet MexicoCongress
NetherlandsStates-General #NorwayStorthing
PortugalCortes Geraes (general Assembly)
PrussiaLandtagHerrenhausNo limit -- very various
classes -- For different termsAbgeordnetenhaus433 --
Indirect election, general suffrage[sect] -- 5 years,
or until dissolution SpainCortes SwedenDiet
SwitzerlandBundesversammlung United
StatesCongressSenate92(1908) -- 6 yearsHouse of
Representatives391 (1908) -- 2 years.
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*In the self-governing colonies of Great Britain the
legislative body usually consists of two chambers, the
names of the legislature and the chambers varying. Thus
in Australia the Federal Parliament is composed of the
Senate and the House of Commons, in New Zealand the
General Assembly is composed of the Legislative Council
and the House of Representatives, etc. #Members of the
Storthing are chosen for three years by direct election
by manhood suffrage, forty-one being elected from the
towns and eighty-two from the rural districts. The
Storthing on assembling divides into the Lagthing
including one fourth and the Odelsthing including three
fourths of the total membership of the Storthing. All
new laws are laid first before the Odelsthing. If the
two houses do not agree they vote in joint session, a
majority of two thirds of those voting being necessary
to a decision. [sect] While theoretically general, the
suffrage is so classified as often practically to
disfranchise those who are not property holders.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s; see legislator + -ure.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws. 2 (context Canada English) A legislative building.
WordNet
n. persons who make or amend or repeal laws [syn: legislative assembly, general assembly, law-makers]
Wikipedia
The Legislature was the parliament of British Guiana between 1961 and 1964. A bicameral body, it consisted of an appointed Senate and an elected Legislative Assembly.
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. Legislatures form important parts of most governments; in the separation of powers model, they are often contrasted with the executive and judicial branches of government.
Laws enacted by legislatures are known as legislation. Legislatures observe and steer governing actions and usually have exclusive authority to amend the budget or budgets involved in the process.
The members of a legislature are called legislators; in a democracy, legislators are almost always elected.
Usage examples of "legislature".
The case arose out of a series of acts of the legislature of New York, passed between the years 1798 and 1811, which conferred upon Livingston and Fulton the exclusive right to navigate the waters of that State with steam-propelled vessels.
A SECOND SON, Charles, was born that summer of 1770, and for all the criticism to which he was being subjected, Adams was elected by the Boston Town Meeting as a representative to the Massachusetts legislature.
IN 1774, Adams was chosen by the legislature as one of five delegates to the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and with all Massachusetts on the verge of rebellion, he removed Abigail and the children again to Braintree, where they would remain.
The executive, the governor, should, Adams thought, be chosen by the two houses of the legislature, and for not more than a year at a time.
When members of the Massachusetts legislature came to Quincy to present Adams with a tribute to his devoted service to his country, he was moved to tears.
Cannon boomed from Mount Wollaston, bells rang, and the procession that carried the casket from the Adams house to the church included the governor, the president of Harvard, members of the state legislature, and Congressman Daniel Webster.
Constitution, in article I, section 2, adopts as qualifications for voting for members of Congress those qualifications established by the States for voting for the most numerous branch of their legislatures.
As assistant to the Charge Advisor in the government of Mother Aglee, she had appeared before the Planetary Legislature to testify on the negative results of the work of government scientists.
Responding to such appeals, or acting on their own initiative, the State legislatures enacted measure after measure which entrenched upon the normal life of the community very drastically.
From these sensible resolutions, the reader may conceive some idea of the misconduct that attends the management of the poor in England, as well as of the grievous burdens entailed upon the people by the present laws which constitute this branch of the legislature.
In the State Capitol that night, another extraordinary declaration of rebellion by Governor Barnett was read to the cheering legislature.
Taxpayers cannot complain of arbitrary action or assert surprise in the retroactive apportionment of tax burdens to income when that is done by the legislature at the first opportunity after knowledge of the nature and amount of the income is available.
The state legislature had recently promised a flood of state and federal money into Chickasaw County to preserve the old structure.
The fate of the settlement rested with the state legislature now, for the Pine Lake Chippewa had made their offer.
Discovering that direct action was impracticable, the State legislatures created commissions to deal with the problem.