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Definition of Legislative
Legislative

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.

Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.

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Legislative Quotations

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
Charles Schumer

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Charles de Secondat

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
Martin Van Buren

Legislative Translations

legislative in German is gesetzgebend
legislative in Italian is legislativo
legislative in Norwegian is lovgivende
legislative in Spanish is legislativo
legislative in Swedish is lagstiftande


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