the legislature

基本解釋

The norms and practices of the legislature do not foster good policy-making.
立法機構(gòu)的規(guī)范和習(xí)慣并不能出現(xiàn)好的決策。
He may be right that most Canadians care more about the luge than the legislature, but that is surely true only while their decent system of government is in good hands.
他認為絕大多數(shù)加拿大人關(guān)心立法，但更關(guān)心滑雪賽，這個觀點也許是正確的，但只有當(dāng)政府良好的系統(tǒng)由可信賴的人執(zhí)掌時，這個觀點才是完全正確的。
This meeting, a smaller one of the party’s central committee immediately afterwards and a session of the legislature in March 2013 will endorse the biggest shuffle in China’s leadership for a decade.
這次的會議，相對年輕的新一代中央委員（之后立即就任），2013年3月份的一系列的立法會議將會支持這次在未來十年中中國領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層的最大一次洗牌。

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.
"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."
最高權(quán)力“,這里洛克指的是立法機關(guān)，“未經(jīng)本人同意，不能取去任何人財產(chǎn)的任何部分，因為，既然保護財產(chǎn)是政府的目的,也是人們加入社會的目的，這就必然假定而且要求人民應(yīng)該享有財產(chǎn)權(quán)“
耶魯公開課 - 公正課程節(jié)選
I think it can because to me, it seems that it's very similar to the process of electing representatives for legislature.
我認為是可以的，因為對我來說這非常類似于,選舉立法代表的過程。
耶魯公開課 - 公正課程節(jié)選

Marriage is a contract, they said, and the legislature sets the terms of that contract.
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立法
Therefore, we need the legislature more forward-looking vision.
因此,我們的立法機關(guān)更需要一些前瞻性眼光。