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Lawmaking   /lˈɔmˌeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
Lawmaking

noun
1.
The act of making or enacting laws.  Synonyms: legislating, legislation.






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"Lawmaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned its attention to the great work for which it had originally been summoned, and drew up a constitution for the republic. This provided that the lawmaking power should be vested in a legislative assembly consisting of two houses. The lower house was called the Council of the Five Hundred, and the upper chamber the Council of the Elders. Members of the latter were required to be at least forty years of age. The executive ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... two parts, a preamble, which is a plantation covenant like that signed in the cabin of the Mayflower, and a series of laws or orders passed either separately or together by the court which drafted them. This court was a lawmaking body and it made public the laws when they were passed. That this body of laws or, as we may not improperly call it, this frame of government was ratified, as Trumbull says, by all the free planters assembled at Hartford on January 14, 1639, is not impossible, though such action ...
— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews



Words linked to "Lawmaking" :   reconsider, enactment, criminalisation, government, passage, decriminalization, statute law, governance, law, jurisprudence, governing, criminalization, administration, filibuster, legislating, decriminalisation, government activity, legislation



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