Crossword-Solution: LEGISLATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Legislate | v. i. | To make or enact a law or laws. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “LEGISLATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| make new law | 1 answer |
| make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | 1 answer |
| Work in a chamber, say | 1 answer |
| Take care of bills | 1 answer |
| Make or pass laws | 1 answer |
| Exercise the function of Congress. | 1 answer |
| Enact laws | 1 answer |
| Do congressional work | 1 answer |
| Make laws officially | 1 answer |
| Make laws | 2 answers |
| Do House work | 2 answers |
| Pass laws | 2 answers |
| Lay down the law | 5 answers |
| ADHERENCE TO A LAW OR LAWS AS A PRIMARY EXERCISE OF RELIGION | 10 answers |
| Body of laws | 12 answers |
| PUT on an act | 13 answers |
| legalise | 13 answers |
| Make into Law | 15 answers |
| Ordain | 15 answers |
| Enact | 36 answers |
| dictate | 41 answers |
| countersign | 49 answers |
| CALL to order | 52 answers |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with LEGISLATE (5)
His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.
But, oh heavens! shall we condescend to legislate on any of these particulars? I think, he said, that there is no need to impose laws about them on good men; what regulations are necessary they will find out soon enough for themselves.
Evidently, Congress must soon legislate again on the hastily organized Bureau, which had so quickly grown into wide significance and vast possibilities.
Ever jealous for the race, they will legislate for the babes of boys yet to be born; and for the babes of girls, too, for they must be the mothers, wives, and sisters of these boys.
And men say (and it seems to fit in well with his hasty and eager character) that he would legislate by word of mouth; sometimes forget what he had said; and, on the same question arising in another province, decide it perhaps otherwise.
Quotes with LEGISLATE (3)
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.
Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings: How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my opinion, is by attempting to discern what those who made the law intended... As I wrote in an opinion for our court, the judge's responsibility "is to discern how the framers' values, defined in the context of the world they knew, apply in the world we know. If a judge abandons intentions as his guide, there is no law available to him, and he begins to le…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).