Legislator

Definitions

1. Someone who creates or enacts laws.
2. especially a member of a legislative body.
3. especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.

Equivalents

Examples

“Give⟳ the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know⟳ their own⟳ resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope⟳, and give⟳ them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work⟳ out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.”

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