Synonyms:
legislation, statute_law
Meaning: law enacted by a legislative body
Synonyms:
legislation, legislating, lawmaking
Meaning: the act of making or enacting laws
Usage examples
I am not disposed to ask this Congress to go into speculative legislation.
From this it followed that legislation for the benefit of manufacturers became a Northern policy.
"I can't be, after the ruin their unintelligent propaganda and legislation have brought upon Alaska.
"The details of it," suggested the Master; "had it been legislation, I should have been there to hear it, even though I am not in office."
But in the petty details of every day, in their ordinary talk, and in their routine legislation, their sympathies were still with the slave-holders.
Morality, then, is the relation of actions to the relation of actions will, that is, to the autonomy of potential universal legislation by its maxims.
It has been sometimes assumed that this was the recognition of the power of the Territorial Legislature to exercise plenary legislation, as might that of a State.
The act made it exactly as great an offense to give such information as to exhibit the sort of pictures and writings at which the legislation was ostensibly aimed.
In this way a world of rational beings (mundus intelligibilis) is possible as a kingdom of ends, and this by virtue of the legislation proper to all persons as members.
In fact the objective principle of all practical legislation lies (according to the first principle) in the rule and its form of universality which makes it capable of being a law (say, e.