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- Dictionarylegislature/ˈlɛdʒɪslətʃə/
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- 1. the legislative body of a country or state: "the Nevada state legislature passed a law to prohibit dumping of nuclear waste"
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A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Legislatures can exist at different levels of government–national, state/provincial/regional, local, even supranational (such as the European Parliamen... Wikipedia