legislate
Make official rules
To legislate is to make laws, typically through a formal governmental body: Congress legislates on matters of national concern.
The word extends to any authoritative rule-making: You can't legislate morality.
Someone who legislates from the bench makes judicial decisions that effectively create new law rather than interpret existing statutes.
Amount owed, written
- amendmentChange to official text
- enactmentPassing into law
- statuteEnacted written rule
- codifyOrganize into formal rules
regulation · ordinance · provision · clause · ratify · passage · vote · debate
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- houseResidential building
- committeeAppointed group for duties
subcommittee · chamber · caucus · session · representatives · floor · gallery · speaker
Control by rules
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- enforceCompel obedience to
administer · executive · administration · bureaucracy · agency · compliance · implementation · authority
One who acts for another
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- electorateEligible voting body
- votingFormally registering a choice
- ballotVoting document
constituency · referendum · initiative · republic · citizenship · rights · liberty · accountability
Formal discussion list
- platformRaised flat structure
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- fiscalOf public revenue
- ideologyStructured belief framework
partisanship · coalition · negotiation · compromise · reform · healthcare · taxation · immigration
bill
Amount owed, written
codify · regulation · ordinance · provision · clause · ratify · passage · vote · debate · draft
parliament
National legislative assembly
committee · subcommittee · chamber · caucus · session · representatives · floor · gallery · speaker · whip
regulate
Control by rules
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
enforce · administer · executive · administration · bureaucracy · agency · compliance · implementation · authority · sanction
representative
One who acts for another
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- electorateEligible voting body
- votingFormally registering a choice
ballot · constituency · referendum · initiative · republic · citizenship · rights · liberty · accountability · transparency
agenda
Formal discussion list
ideology · partisanship · coalition · negotiation · compromise · reform · healthcare · taxation · immigration · environmental
- legislative billProposed statute for enactment
- legislative chamberHall where laws form
- legislative debateFormal lawmaker discourse
- legislative branchGovernment's lawmaking arm
- legislative committeePanel reviewing proposed laws
- state legislatureLawmaking body below Congress
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