0 present participle of legislate
1 If a government legislates, it makes a new law:
Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
Specifically, it has failed to play an active and independent role in legislating public policies and exercising fiscal control over the national budget.
The problems and pitfalls of developing and legislating health policy are taken up in the next two papers.
Where language policies for multilingualism work at the state level, it is probably mostly in cases of recognizing and legislating already established situations.
They pointed out that even while legislating higher standards for teacher education, 25 states have created alternative, less demanding routes to certification.
More importantly, the existence of multiple veto points may establish the preconditions for a particularistic style of legislating.
As such, we should have no fear that by legislating virtue we shall diminish its existence among those who already possess it.
The judge who conceives of herself as legislating rarely says so in an opinion.