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Definition of Legislative assembly
1. Noun. Persons who make or amend or repeal laws.
Examples of category: Scrutin Uninomial System, Scrutin Uninominal Voting System, Single-member System, Uninominal System, Uninominal Voting System, Sergeant At Arms, Serjeant-at-arms, Appropriation, One-member, Uninominal
Group relationships: Authorities, Government, Regime
Specialized synonyms: Senate, Congress, U.s. Congress, United States Congress, Us Congress, House, Legislative Council, Congress, Diet, Parliament, Duma
Generic synonyms: Assembly
Derivative terms: Legislate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legislative Assembly
Literary usage of Legislative assembly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"That no member of the legislative assembly shall hold or be appointed to any
office created, or the salary or emoluments of which shall have been increased, ..."
2. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"The canvass and return of all the votes at elections in said Territory for members
of the legislative assembly thereof shall also be returned to said board, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Quebec.1—Members of the legislative assembly are paid $6 a day during the session.
Nova Scotia,—Members are paid an indemnity of $500 for the session. ..."
4. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1878)
"When the Constitution was accepted and the legislative assembly came to be chosen,
... When the legislative assembly met, it was found to contain an ..."
5. The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France by Alphonse de Lamartine (1854)
"... the llth of November—A Conscription of 300000 men decreed—Military condition
of France—Opening of the legislative assembly—The Emperor's ..."
6. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"The attitude of the legislative assembly. I. Ax the very time when the Legislative
Assembly was declaring itself to be monarchical, it found itself drawn, ..."
7. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"Provided that until the Legislature of Ontario otherwise provides, at any election
for a member of the legislative assembly of Ontario for the District of ..."
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