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Lawgiver

One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws a legislator

Legislatorial

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature

Legislatorship

The office of a legislator

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lawmaker

lawmaker : one that makes laws ;esp : legislator law·mak·ing n

Solon

A celebrated Athenian lawmaker born about 638 b c hence a legislator a publicist often used ironically

Lawgiver

Lawgiver, means (1) A legislator, esp. one who promulgates an entire code of laws. (2) A judge with the power to interpret law,

Judicial power

and Sons v. V. Madhavarao, AIR 1964 AP 132 (135). (Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 24) The legislatures in India cannot exercise a power which can be described as essentially judicial and not legislative. There has

Rule of law

fundamental assumptions -- one is that law making must be essentially in the hands of a democratically elected legislature, subject of course to any power in the executive in an emergent situation to promulgate ordinances effective for

Rajya Sabha

States; the upper House or second chamber of Parliament of India. Constitution of India, Art. 79. Means the legislative council of a state while the state legislative assembly is generally known as Rajya Vidhan Sabha. But in

Law

the law must satisfy two tests before it can be a valid law, namely, (1) that the appropriate legislature has competency to make the law; and (2) that it does not take away or abridge any of

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