legislating
Crafting official rules
Legislating is the act of making or enacting laws.
Legislators legislate when they draft, debate, and pass statutes: Congress spent months legislating new tax policy.
The term extends to any authoritative rule-making: You can't legislate morality.
To legislate something into or out of existence is to create or abolish it by law.
Crafting enforceable rules
- draftingCreating technical blueprints
- enactingMaking into law
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
- amendmentChange to official text
ratification · proposal · deliberation · committee · lobbying · filibuster · markup · reading
Enacted written rule
- billAmount owed, written
- actDeed or performance
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
resolution · decree · law · provision · clause · mandate · code · measure
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
- houseResidential building
bicameral · unicameral · diet · council · representatives · caucus · quorum
Careful weighing of choices
- argumentationSystematic reasoning process
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- persuasionConvincing through reasoning
disputation · opposition · proposition · rebuttal · floor speech · testimony · advocacy · bipartisanship
lawmaking
Crafting enforceable rules
- draftingCreating technical blueprints
- enactingMaking into law
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
amendment · ratification · proposal · deliberation · committee · lobbying · filibuster · markup · reading · voting
statute
Enacted written rule
regulation · resolution · decree · law · provision · clause · mandate · code · measure · directive
parliament
National legislative assembly
house · bicameral · unicameral · diet · council · representatives · caucus · quorum
deliberation
Careful weighing of choices
- argumentationSystematic reasoning process
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
persuasion · disputation · opposition · proposition · rebuttal · floor speech · testimony · advocacy · bipartisanship · gridlock
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
legislatingrepealing
Abolishing enacted legislation
abolishing · revoking · nullifying · rescinding · annulling
legislatingenforcing
Compelling obedience to rules
executing · implementing · obeying · complying · administering
legislatingdecreeing
Issuing authoritative orders
dictating · commanding · circumventing · flouting · imposing
- legislative billProposed statute for enactment
- legislative chamberHall where laws form
- legislative debateFormal lawmaker discourse
- legislative branchGovernment's lawmaking arm
- legislative committeePanel reviewing proposed laws
- landmark legislationTransformative legal enactment