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Definition of Legislatures
1. legislature [n] - See also: legislature
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legislatures
Literary usage of Legislatures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"n The State legislatures exhibit in a still greater degree the decline, ...
The nuances are administered by the legislatures without the faintest regard to ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"Fourthly, by the State legislatures. The elections being carried through this
refinement, there would be apt to result some check in favour of the ..."
3. History of Woman Suffrage by Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1922)
"long advocated, namely, the granting to women by State legislatures of the right to
... As soon as the legislatures of the various States met in 1917 they ..."
4. Division and reunion, 1829-1889 by Woodrow Wilson (1893)
"Acts of Southern legislatures (1865-1866). Congress had come together, however,
on December 4, 1865, in no temper to look with favor upon the new ..."
5. The Papers of James Madison: Purchased by Order of the Congress, Being His by James Madison (1840)
"Experience, he said, had shown that the State legislatures, drawn immediately
from the people, did not always possess their confidence. He had no objection, ..."
6. The City School District: Statutory Provisions for Organization and Fiscal by Harry Erwin Bard (1909)
"Constitutional provisions limiting the powers of the legislatures. ... Formerly
annual sessions of the state legislatures were the common practice; ..."
7. Nominating Systems: Direct Primaries Versus Conventions in the United States by Ernst Christopher Meyer (1902)
"Who were the senatorial products of ^ew York when the Platt and Hill "machines"
controlled the legislatures of that State ? Who represented Pennsylvania in ..."
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