0 the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws -- 立法機構
The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states.
Western donor aid agencies must justify their programmes to legislatures and citizens back home.
First, existing studies do not make clear why the factors identified increase or decrease the number of laws produced by legislatures.
If this problem is not solved, too many parties will be competing with the result that several parties are shut out of the legislature.
This meant that a state legislature could, if it wished, itself select the electors.
However, despite its overwhelming majority of 122 out of 182 seats in the legislature, the party found governing more difficult than getting elected.
Nor have these changes made the executive branch any more accountable to the popularly elected legislature than it was before.
Every modern democracy has elected legislatures and political parties, each of which is a vehicle for a specific type of representation.
