legislature

call the legislature into session.

the legislature and the judicature are independent of one another.

The legislature passed the bill.

the legislature's summer recess;

introduce a tax bill before the legislature;

The path of the bill through the legislature was smooth and orderly.

Legislatures often act in a negatory manner.

The legislature was boxed in by its earlier decisions.

The legislature is housed in an impressive granite edifice.

confiscation of alien property decreed by the legislature;

The governor will go to the mat with the legislature over the controversial spending bill.

the California Legislature has defunded the Industrial Welfare Commission.

the legislature would have a veto over appointments to key posts.

pronounced the legislature to be in session; was pronounced dead on arrival.

After two years the state legislature delegalized gambling.

Fearing a taxpayers' revolt, the legislature passed a less confiscatory revenue bill.