Definition of "legislative assembly" [legislative assembly]

• Persons who make or amend or repeal laws (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The municipality of Paris had been the iniquitous drudges of the Jacobin party in the legislative assembly ” they were made the instruments of massacring the prisoners, * of dethroning and executing the king, ** and successively of destroying the Brissotine faction, *** filling the prisons with all who were obnoxious to the republicans, **** and of involving a repentant nation in the irremidiable guilt of the Queen's death. ” *****"