LEGISLATION in a Sentence

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The negotiators reach agreement and a fast track legislation that would allow passage through the US congress without amendments.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEGISLATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
legislation
 n.  lawmaking; the act of making or enacting laws ; law enacted by a legislative body
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  This last compromise was a hasty bit of legislation, vague and uncertain in outline.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The legislative authority, by which they are in force over the subjects of that commonwealth, hath no power over him.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  And in this we have the original right and rise of both the legislative and executive power, as well as of the governments and societies themselves.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Fourthly, The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Fourthly, The legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it any where, but where the people have.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  THE legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The same holds also in regard of the federative power, that and the executive being both ministerial and subordinate to the legislative, which, as has been shewed, in a constituted commonwealth is the supreme.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  First, When the legislative is altered.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Let us suppose then the legislative placed in the concurrence of three distinct persons.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  There is therefore, secondly, another way whereby governments are dissolved, and that is, when the legislative, or the prince, either of them, act contrary to their trust.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  The other Carpetbaggers and Scallawags who remained were uncertain, frightened, and they hovered together for comfort, wondering what the legislative investigation would bring to light concerning their own private affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
14  Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
15  Prince Andrew, as one closely connected with Speranski and participating in the work of the legislative commission, could give reliable information about that sitting, concerning which various rumors were current.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  Our original proposals were not incorporated in the new legislation.
17  This is a very important piece of legislation.
18  Calls for more legislation to protect tenants were not heeded.
19  Wit Wolzek claimed the legislation could impinge on privacy, self determination and respect for religious liberty.
20  New laws will soon replace existing legislation.
21  This is a significant piece of legislation.
22  There are few precedents for this sort of retroactive legislation.
23  New legislation still does not offer adequate protection for many endangered species.
24  The police think that such legislation would be unworkable.
25  On Wednesday, the Indian cabinet deferred an anti-corruption legislation.
26  In the last year, the Australian government has introduced legislation to tighten up the relatively relaxed domestic security.
27  The negotiators reach agreement and a fast track legislation that would allow passage through the US congress without amendments.
28  Pointing out that he consistently has voted against strengthening anti-pollution legislation, reporters debunk the candidate's claim that he is a fervent environmentalist.
29  Cabinet's approval of the draft legislation was diabolical and contradicted the Bible, he said in a statement.
30  Direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive.