Synonyms for legislative branch
leg·isla·tive branch

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1. legislative branchnoun

   Synonyms:
   legislature

2. legislative branchnoun

   The branch of government which is concerned with the making of laws

   Synonyms:
   legislature

Princeton's WordNet

1. legislative branchnoun

   the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

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1. Buddy Carter:

   The Constitution is quite clear that The Constitution's the responsibility of the legislative branch, of the state legislative branch, to run the elections and certainly I would have hoped that he would have gone through and gotten input from them before he did The Constitution.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   Whatever the issue and challenge that we face, the Congress of the United States will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the United States, to protect our democracy, the legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that.

3. John F. McManus:

   Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

4. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   This is the legislative branch, and the power of the purse rests within the legislative branch. And we fully expect that we are going to exercise that power.

5. Paul Ryan:

   We've talked about the Constitution, Article 1 on the Constitution, the separation of powers, he feels very strongly, actually, that under President Obama's watch, President Obama stripped a lot of power away from the Constitution, away from the legislative branch of government, and we want to reset the balance of power so that people and the Constitution are rightfully restored.