Synonyms:
legislator
Meaning: someone who makes or enacts laws
Usage examples
The legislator cannot plead ignorance as an excuse for upholding a glaring iniquity.
Sometimes a legislator from a country town goes to the state capital poor and returns rich.
Well might he be called, as he was, "the legislator," or law interpreter, "of the heavens."
On this principle all maxims are rejected which are inconsistent with the will being itself universal legislator.
What brought the legislator to the meeting was the fact that he was coming forward for re-election in November, and believed that this afforded a good chance to meet some of his constituents and make a favorable impression.
This grand right--the sword of thought, which elevates the virtuous citizen to the rank of legislator, and makes the malicious citizen an agent of discord--frees us from all preliminary responsibility to the law; but it does not release us from our internal obligation to render a public account of our sentiments and thoughts.