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Definition: Legislative Branch |
Legislative BranchNoun1. 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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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In 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 | 1974-1977 | The 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. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
legislative branch | 100 |
united state legislative branch | 3 |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cladus, ramus. (various references) |
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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. | |
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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)
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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)L e g i s l a t i v e   B r a n c h |
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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