lawmaking
Drafting official rules
Lawmaking is the process of creating laws, typically through legislative bodies like parliaments or congresses.
The term covers everything from drafting bills to debating and voting on them: The lawmaking process can take months or years.
As an adjective, it describes bodies or functions related to creating legislation: lawmaking authority, lawmaking power.
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- assemblyConstructing from components
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
house · representatives · chamber · bicameral · unicameral · diet · speaker · whip
Eligible voting body
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- ballotVoting document
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
constituency · representative · voting · majority · plurality · coalition · plebiscite · initiative
Advocating to decision-makers
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- activismDirect effort for reform
- petitionFormal written appeal
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
advocacy · stakeholder · constituent · grassroots · amicus
parliament
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- assemblyConstructing from components
council · house · representatives · chamber · bicameral · unicameral · diet · speaker · whip · clerk
electorate
Eligible voting body
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- ballotVoting document
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
mandate · constituency · representative · voting · majority · plurality · coalition · plebiscite · initiative · recall
lobbying
Advocating to decision-makers
testimony · advocacy · stakeholder · constituent · grassroots · amicus
- legislative powersappropriations, impeachment, veto override, war powers, advice and consent
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, bill
- legislaturebill, senators, senator, state legislature, legislators
- Congress powersspending power, declare war, impeachment, appropriations, borrowing power
lawmakinglaw enforcement
Upholding legal codes
enforcement · adjudication · judicial review · prosecution · policing
lawmakingrepeal
Annul a statute
deregulation · nullification · abrogation · annulment · decriminalization
lawmakingnon-governmental
Not of the state
civil disobedience · lawbreaking · vigilantism · anarchism · mob rule
law, making, make, maker, outlaw, lawful, lawless, lawsuit, unlawful