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Legislative Branch

Definition: Legislative Branch

Legislative Branch

Noun

1. The branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Legislative Branch

English words defined with "legislative branch": Cape Town, contempt of Congress. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Legislative Branch

DomainTitle

Books

  • History Speaks : Legislative Branch of the Government (reference)

  • Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2002: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred S (reference)

  • The Peoples Guides to Government - Legislative Branch (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Almost Painless Guide to U.S. Civics: The Legislative Branch (reference)

  • Understanding Government - The Legislative Branch (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Legislative Branch

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Panama

The legislative branch consists of a 72-member unicameral Legislative Assembly. (references)

Dominican Republic

The president appoints the cabinet, executes laws passed by the legislative branch, and is commander in chief of the armed forces. (references)

Switzerland

The Federal Assembly is the primary seat of power, although in practice the executive branch has been increasing its power at the expense of the legislative branch. (references)

Human Rights

Costa Rica

The Ombudsman's office is part of the legislative branch, ensuring a high degree of independence from the executive branch. (references)

Turkey

The composition of the High Council is widely criticized as restricting the independence of the judiciary, since the Minister of Justice is part of the legislative branch of the Government. (references)

Political Economy

Poland

Within the legislative branch of the government, the Sejm has preeminent power. (references)

Political Rights

Chile

The Constitution provides for a strong presidency and a legislative branch with limited powers. (references)

Bahrain

He stated that the legislative branch would consist of a directly elected lower house and an appointed upper house. (references)

Angola

The Council can enact decree-laws, decrees, and resolutions, thereby controlling most functions normally associated with the legislative branch. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

The program is administered through the DIF and is supported by numerous executive and legislative branch entities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Legislative Branch

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837In its application to the Executive, with reference to the legislative branch of the Government, the same rule of action should make the President ever anxious to avoid the exercise of any discretionary authority which can be regulated by Congress.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977The exclusive right to declare war, the duty to advise and consent on the part of the Senate, the power of the purse on the part of the House are ample authority for the legislative branch and should be jealously guarded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Legislative Branch

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

legislative branch

100

united state legislative branch

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Legislative Branch

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cladus, ramus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Legislative Branch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-l-n-r-s-t-v"

-4 letters: interglacials.

-5 letters: antiliberals, evangelicals, evangelistic, eviscerating, interglacial, intervillage, libertinages, reescalating, talebearings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Legislative Branch


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 67 69 73 6C 61 74 69 76 65      42 72 61 6E 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100111 01101001 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#103 &#105 &#115 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0067 0069 0073 006C 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065      0042 0072 0061 006E 0063 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46717375857867867588712368467806974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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