Definition of "legislation" []

• The act or process of legislating; lawmaking. (noun)
• A proposed or enacted law or group of laws. (noun)

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• "The intention in the final constitution should be to introduce a framework whereby the judicial determination of the pre-eminence of national legislation is replaced by the requirement that the provinces themselves through the Senate conclusively establish the desirability of the relevant national legislation*."
• "That the abolition of slavery is within the sphere of legislation, I argue, _secondly_, from the fact, that _slavery as a legal system, is the creature of legislation_."
• "_Don't propose any "local" legislation_; for in progressive states, local game legislation is coming strongly into disfavor, -- just as it should!"