Definition of Legislator

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Definition of Legislator
	Legislator A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. Related Definitions: Body, Community, For, Lawgiver, Legislative, Member, Of, One, Or, State, Who

Legislator Quotations

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
Bob Woodward

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.
Julian Bond

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
Michael N. Castle

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
Mark Shields

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
Mark Shields

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Robert Bork

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
Dick Murphy

Legislator Translations

legislator in German is Gesetzgeber
legislator in Italian is legiferatore
legislator in Spanish is legislador
legislator in Swedish is lagstiftare

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