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  • Legislative Branch

    Definition of Legislative Branch In relation to social issues, a meaning of legislative branch is provided here: passes laws to protect individual rights and promote the common good.

  • Legislative Branch

    Definition of Legislative Branch In relation to social issues, a meaning of legislative branch is provided here: passes laws to protect individual rights and promote the common good.

  • Legislative Power

    The authority, under the constitution, to make laws, and to alter or repeal them. …

  • Legislative Procedure

    Hierarchical Display of Legislative procedure Politics > Parliamentary proceedingsPolitics > Parliament > Powers of parliamentPolitics > Parliament > ParliamentLaw > Sources and branches of the law > Source of law > LegislationPolitics > Political framework > Political […]

  • Branches of Government

    Definition of Branches of Government In relation to social issues, a meaning of branches of government is provided here: established in the U.S. Constitution to divide the power of government between legislative, executive and judicial branches

  • Branches of Government

    Definition of Branches of Government In relation to social issues, a meaning of branches of government is provided here: established in the U.S. Constitution to divide the power of government between legislative, executive and judicial branches

  • City Council

    City Council

    Definition of City Council In relation to social issues, a meaning of city council is provided here: the equivalent of the legislative branch for a city.

  • Board Of Governors Of The Federal Reserve System

    The governing body of the federal system of reserve banks. There are seven members having fourteen- year terms, who are not subject to direct control by either the executive or legislative branches of government. The Board has general supervision over the operation and policies of the twelve […]

  • Parliament

    Parliament

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Parliament Meaning of Parliament The legislative division of English government consisting of the Queen, the house of commons and the House of Lords. Parliament […]

  • Senate

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Senate Meaning of Senate The upper chamber of the Congress of the United States and also the name given to similar bodies in the legislature of most states. Senate […]

  • Statutory Law

    Statutory law English Spanish Translation of Statutory law leyes EstatutariasFind other English to Spanish translations from the Pocket Spanish English Legal Dictionary (print and online), the English to Spanish to English dictionaries (like Statutory law) and the Word […]

  • Secretary Of State

    The word secretary is synonymous with the word clerk or scribe, and it means a person employed to write orders, records and the like, so that the title Secretary of State, in and of itself implies an officer who is charged with the duties of […]

  • Secretary Of State

    The word secretary is synonymous with the word clerk or scribe, and it means a person employed to write orders, records and the like, so that the title Secretary of State, in and of itself implies an officer who is charged with the duties of […]

  • Veto

    The right of forbidding or denying without assigning any reasons therefor.

  • Jurisdiction

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Jurisdiction Meaning of Jurisdiction The extent of legal authority and power . A term of large and comprehensive import , it generally denotes the lawful authority of a body to exercise power. The term […]