Legislature used in a sentence

Legislature in a sentence as a noun

Even if they got double that percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature.

If you rely on judicial interpretation, between the legislature and the courts, they'll make a muddled mess out of it.

In 1988, the California legislature passed the “Russell Bill” which releases the donor from liability.

What makes you think that a "productive" legislature would make things better and not worse?I much prefer a system where any law needs broad consensus and relatively few are passed.

What happened is they gave the legislature a year to revise the laws to make them constitutional, but until then nothing has changed and there's a good chance these laws will be revised before the deadline.

When prisoners are housed in prisons in rural districts, they count towards that districts population for purposes of calculating representation in state legislature.

Milwaukee had Socialist mayors from 1910 to 1960; unlike most American cities, the state legislature had authority over the city police and appointed police chiefs who often were hostile to the city Socialists.

The legislature shall provide for a system of common schools by which a free school shall be established and maintained in every school district for at least six months in each year, which school shall be open to all pupils between the ages of six and twenty-one years.

The Republican-dominated legislature then passed a bill, similar to this California bill, further establishing Amazon's sales tax obligations, for not just the distribution center but the affiliates.

Because they think that they get to just make up laws, all on their own..."So by making administrative changes to business permits, police get effective warrant-free surveillance?It continues to amaze me how various government agencies are doing these end-runs around the legislature and voters by fiat.