legislatively
Through enacted laws
Legislatively means by means of legislation or through the legislative process.
Laws can be enacted legislatively rather than through executive order or court ruling: The policy was established legislatively, not by regulation.
The word describes how something is accomplished—through the formal lawmaking procedures of a legislature.
Passing into law
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
- billAmount owed, written
- amendmentChange to official text
- statuteEnacted written rule
act · ordinance · resolution · provision · clause · measure · repeal · ratification
Formal authoritative directive
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- rulemakingAgency regulation creation process
standards · guidelines · code · directive · provision · regulatory · scrutiny · implementation
Careful weighing of choices
- debateFormal argument on issues
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
- clotureProcedure ending legislative discussion
reading · markup · reconciliation · conference · vote · motion · amendment · procedure
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- houseResidential building
- representativesThose acting for others
committee · caucus · chamber · floor · gallery · capitol · speaker · whip
One who acts for another
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- electorateEligible voting body
- constituencyElectoral district's voters
- votingFormally registering a choice
ballot · referendum · civic · accountability · consensus · federalism · enfranchisement · pluralism
enactment
Passing into law
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
- billAmount owed, written
- amendmentChange to official text
statute · act · ordinance · resolution · provision · clause · measure · repeal · ratification · bicameral
mandate
Formal authoritative directive
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
rulemaking · standards · guidelines · code · directive · provision · regulatory · scrutiny · implementation · promulgation
deliberation
Careful weighing of choices
- debateFormal argument on issues
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
cloture · reading · markup · reconciliation · conference · vote · motion · amendment · procedure · calendar
parliament
National legislative assembly
representatives · committee · caucus · chamber · floor · gallery · capitol · speaker · whip · coalition
representative
One who acts for another
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- electorateEligible voting body
- constituencyElectoral district's voters
voting · ballot · referendum · civic · accountability · consensus · federalism · enfranchisement · pluralism · mandate
legislativelyexecutively
In administrative authority style
judicially · administratively · by decree · bureaucratically
legislativelyinformally
Without official protocol
extralegally · customarily · de facto · unilaterally · unofficially
- legislative billProposed statute for enactment
- legislative chamberHall where laws form
- legislative debateFormal lawmaker discourse
- legislative branchGovernment's lawmaking arm
- legislative committeePanel reviewing proposed laws
- legislative processHow statutes get enacted