legislative body
Noun
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Noun
legislative body
- A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.
- Under unicameral constitutions the legislative bodies are single assemblies, in the bicameral Westminster model the legislative body is a parliament comprising two houses or chambers
- Its equivalent, exercising legislative power at a sub-state administrative level.
- legislative assembly
- Spanish: cuerpo legislativo
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