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. 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.

2. Ted Cruz:

   I want to reiterate the fact that I'm not a senator, in case anyone was worried about that, i would never run for the legislative branch.

3. 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.

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:

   While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will, his proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected. No president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally.