Definition of Legislate

Legislate

To make or enact a law or laws.

Related Definitions:

Enact, Law, Make, Or, To

Legislate Quotations

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Naguib Mahfouz

You can't legislate morality.
Jesse Ventura

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
Jay Alan Sekulow

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Norman Ralph Augustine

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
Steve Buyer

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Paul Muldoon

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
Jacques Delors

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
Ann Robinson

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
Zack Wamp

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
Pete Coors

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
Malcolm X

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.
John Campbell

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Legislate Translations

legislate in German is Gesetze geben
legislate in Spanish is legislar
legislate in Swedish is lagstifta

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