legislature

1. Persons who make or amend or repeal laws (synset 108180172)
   associated with:

   • scrutin uninomial system, scrutin uninominal voting system, single-member system, uninominal system, uninominal voting system - based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district
   • sergeant at arms, serjeant-at-arms - an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands
   • appropriation - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
   • one-member, uninominal - based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature)
   is a type of: assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
   subtypes:

   • senate - assembly possessing high legislative powers
   • congress, u.s. congress, united states congress, us congress - the legislature of the United States government
   • house - an official assembly having legislative powers
   • legislative council - a unicameral legislature
   • congress - a national legislative assembly
   • diet - a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
   • parliament - a legislative assembly in certain countries
   • duma - a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR
   belongs to: authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
   same as: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body

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