LEGISLATIVE in a Sentence

Learn LEGISLATIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
69 example sentences for LEGISLATIVE, such as:
1. A legislative assembly is being held.
2. First, When the legislative is altered.
3. Congress is the legislative branch of the U.
4. Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.
5. New legislation makes it an offence to carry guns.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LEGISLATIVE
legislative
 a.  relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature
 a.  of or relating to or created by legislation
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The legislative authority, by which they are in force over the subjects of that commonwealth, hath no power over him.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  And in this we have the original right and rise of both the legislative and executive power, as well as of the governments and societies themselves.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Fourthly, The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Fourthly, The legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it any where, but where the people have.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  THE legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  The same holds also in regard of the federative power, that and the executive being both ministerial and subordinate to the legislative, which, as has been shewed, in a constituted commonwealth is the supreme.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  First, When the legislative is altered.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Let us suppose then the legislative placed in the concurrence of three distinct persons.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  There is therefore, secondly, another way whereby governments are dissolved, and that is, when the legislative, or the prince, either of them, act contrary to their trust.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  The other Carpetbaggers and Scallawags who remained were uncertain, frightened, and they hovered together for comfort, wondering what the legislative investigation would bring to light concerning their own private affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
13  Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
14  Prince Andrew, as one closely connected with Speranski and participating in the work of the legislative commission, could give reliable information about that sitting, concerning which various rumors were current.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
15  On these three considerations alone is based the conception of irresponsibility for crimes and the extenuating circumstances admitted by all legislative codes.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  Congress is the legislative branch of the U.
2  The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.
3  Legislators introduce bills in the legislative body and examine and vote on bills introduced by other legislators.
4  The judiciary, not the executive or legislative branches, was the most powerful institution, I decided.
5  Also, as the Senate leader, Dole can contrast himself with Clinton with a legislative agenda that reinforces his campaign message.
6  The branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial - are equal, so each can prevent the others from causing too much mischief.
7  I again invoke the cooperation of the executive and legislative authorities of the States in this great purpose.
8  A legislative assembly is being held.
9  A meeting of committees to settle differences between two legislative bodies.
10  Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
11  The legislation has failed to achieve its stated objectives.
12  The new Administration has to pick its way through the minefield of legislation.
13  The assembly voted to delay the legislation to allow further consultation to take place.
14  New legislation makes it an offence to carry guns.
15  Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.