n. a body of persons given the responsibility and power to make laws for a country or state; specif; the lawmaking body of a state; corresponding to the U.S. Congress
The state legislature is in session.
The state legislature is in session.
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The radicals predominate in the new legislature.
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The state legislature is in session. OR The school session is about to end.
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When the Virginia legislature had to move from Charlottesville, what city did they move to?
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Congress is a bicameral legislature.
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To what state's legislature was Lincoln elected?
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In some states the state legislature is known as the general assembly.
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The legislature is appropriating funds.
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What did the South Carolina legislature outlaw as a result of the Vesey plot?
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In 1869 what did a legislature full of men vote to give women that no other women in the world had?
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4 syllables
leg-is-la-ture
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