legislative
Relating to lawmaking
Legislative describes anything relating to the making of laws.
A legislative body is an assembly with the power to create laws—a congress, parliament, or city council.
Legislative power is the authority to enact legislation, as distinct from executive or judicial power.
A legislative session is when lawmakers meet to conduct business.
The bill died in the legislative process.
Upper chamber member
- representativeOne who acts for another
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- lawmakerOne who drafts legislation
- speakerOne who talks
whip · majority leader · minority leader · committee chair · ranking member · parliamentarian · clerk · sergeant-at-arms
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
diet · bicameral · unicameral · upper house · lower house
Amount owed, written
- statuteEnacted written rule
- enactmentPassing into law
- amendmentChange to official text
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
drafting · act · provision · clause · ratification · passage · reading · markup
Appointed group for duties
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- debateFormal argument on issues
- voteFormal choice expression
quorum · caucus · subcommittee · floor · testimony · markup · amendment · procedural
Legal authority's scope
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
confirmation · impeachment · subpoena · censure · expulsion · advice and consent · veto override · appropriation
senator
Upper chamber member
- representativeOne who acts for another
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- lawmakerOne who drafts legislation
speaker · whip · majority leader · minority leader · committee chair · ranking member · parliamentarian · clerk · sergeant-at-arms · page
parliament
National legislative assembly
council · diet · bicameral · unicameral · upper house · lower house
bill
Amount owed, written
codification · drafting · act · provision · clause · ratification · passage · reading · markup · rider
committee
Appointed group for duties
vote · quorum · caucus · subcommittee · floor · testimony · markup · amendment · procedural · motion
jurisdiction
Legal authority's scope
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
ratification · confirmation · impeachment · subpoena · censure · expulsion · advice and consent · veto override · appropriation · treaty
- German governmentBundestag, Bundesrat, executive, judicial, judiciary
- democracyvote, voting, election, elections, ballot
- governmentgovernment, ministries, judiciary, executive branch, ministry
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- government termsfederal agencies, congressional, state agencies, parliamentary, federal
- policy adjectivesfiscal, domestic, foreign, federal, national
legislativeexecutive
Senior organizational leader
judicial · administrative · enforcement · prosecutorial · regulatory
legislativenon-governmental
Not of the state
private · unofficial · civil · corporate · extralegal
legislativeunlawful
Forbidden by statute
illegal · extralegal · unconstitutional · illicit · unauthorized
- 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
legislation, legislations, legislating, legislatively, legislative body, legislative process, legislative branch, legislative sessions, legislative session