A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
The state legislature passed a new education bill.
“If Smith tries to separate, the two divisions of the PPCLI will march on the legislature and she'll be arrested for treason.”
“Whatever the Korean legislature had to do, they clearly had the backing of the people. I'm sure it wasn't clear to our Congress that they had such backing, considering half the people in this country at the time were self deceiving, moronic followers of Trump.”
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In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to collect and spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.
(politics, government) National legislature.
A state legislature , or government generally.
(government, US) An item of legislation for the benefit of a particular individual, not codified with generally applicable laws.
Problem: Students aren't interested in conservative-indoctrination class at "Center for Intellectual Freedom" the state's right-wing legislature made their public university create. Obvious solution: make class mandat…
“Stop electing geriatrics to power. It's like America emptied it's care homes into the legislature.”
“Manitoba legislature Speaker Tom Lindsey on Monday banned MLAs from calling one another a “bigot,” “homophobe,” “racist,” “misogynist” or “transphobe” in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly chamber. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/0... #bdnmb”
“Taiwan legislature rejects Hsu Hsi-hsiang as prosecutor general 14:11 Opposition questions impartiality, experience in confirmation vote https://taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/6354632 #news #taiwan”
(Canada) A legislative building.
Members of the legislature debated late into the night.
“Arizona legislature heads home for a month with budget shutdown clock ticking azmirror.com/briefs/arizo...”
“Because she isn’t the only person voting in the legislature.”
“Problem: Students aren't interested in conservative-indoctrination class at "Center for Intellectual Freedom" the state's right-wing legislature made their public university create. Obvious solution: make class mandatory to graduate”
“Hilarious that the BC legislature unanimously passed DRIPA and apparently didn’t realize that doing so (afaict, based on the Gitxaala decision) superseded all provincial law”
“Still not voting for Steyer. The CA legislature passed a law that ICE agents can't wear masks and must be identifiable. Guess what? ICE is ignoring the law and there is no enforcement mechanism. What good is a law when local law enforcement chooses not to enforce it?”