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Definition of Legislators
1. legislator [n] - See also: legislator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legislators
Literary usage of Legislators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"... questions made upon rights merely depending upon the common lawr; and warmly
laments the confusion introduced by ill-judging and unlearned legislators. ..."
2. Prison Life and Reflections, Or, A Narrative of the Arrest, Trial by George Thompson (1855)
"On that day, a man from Quincy arrived with a petition for Alanson, which he
circulated among the legislators CHAPTER IX. ..."
3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"Such are some of the benefits which European trade owes to the paternal care of
European legislators. But worse still remains behind. ..."
4. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"—legislators paid.—Envy in a Democracy.—Politics of the Country and the City.—Pledges
at Elections.—Universal Suffrage.—Adventure in a Stage Coach. ..."
5. The Law of Arrest in Civil and Criminal Actions by Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees (1915)
"legislators. — Members of Congress, and State legislators, while attending their
respective assemblies, or going to or returning from the same, ..."
6. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"Nothing, indeed, can be more natural, than that legislators, direct or
judicial (especially if they be narrow-minded, timid, and unskilful), should lean as ..."
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