LEGISLATE in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for LEGISLATE, such as:

1. The legislation is still in draft form.
2. First, When the legislative is altered.
3. Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.
4. The new legislation threatens individual liberty.
5. New legislation makes it an offence to carry guns.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEGISLATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
legislate
 v.  make laws; create or pass laws
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Evidently, Congress must soon legislate again on the hastily organized Bureau, which had so quickly grown into wide significance and vast possibilities.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The legislative authority, by which they are in force over the subjects of that commonwealth, hath no power over him.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  And in this we have the original right and rise of both the legislative and executive power, as well as of the governments and societies themselves.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Fourthly, The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Fourthly, The legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it any where, but where the people have.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  THE legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The same holds also in regard of the federative power, that and the executive being both ministerial and subordinate to the legislative, which, as has been shewed, in a constituted commonwealth is the supreme.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  First, When the legislative is altered.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Let us suppose then the legislative placed in the concurrence of three distinct persons.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  There is therefore, secondly, another way whereby governments are dissolved, and that is, when the legislative, or the prince, either of them, act contrary to their trust.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  The other Carpetbaggers and Scallawags who remained were uncertain, frightened, and they hovered together for comfort, wondering what the legislative investigation would bring to light concerning their own private affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
14  Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
15  Prince Andrew, as one closely connected with Speranski and participating in the work of the legislative commission, could give reliable information about that sitting, concerning which various rumors were current.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  The new Administration has to pick its way through the minefield of legislation.
17  The assembly voted to delay the legislation to allow further consultation to take place.
18  New legislation makes it an offence to carry guns.
19  Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.
20  Congress approved legislation which outlawed the sale of the drug.
21  As already mentioned, the legislation does not consider low pay as an acceptable reason for turning down a job.
22  Anyone who thinks this legislation will be effective is living in cloud cuckoo land.
23  Further environmental legislation could be politically inconvenient for the government.
24  The legislation is still in draft form.
25  Because of the legislation I could not employ a woman.
26  The impact of the new legislation has been greatly overstated.
27  The new legislation threatens individual liberty.
28  Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
29  The Official Secrets Act was described as a piece of portmanteau legislation, covering everything from nuclear weapons to army boots.
30  Our original proposals were not incorporated in the new legislation.