the legislature

基本解释

The norms and practices of the legislature do not foster good policy-making.
立法机构的规范和习惯并不能出现好的决策。
He may be right that most Canadians care more about the luge than the legislature, but that is surely true only while their decent system of government is in good hands.
他认为绝大多数加拿大人关心立法，但更关心滑雪赛，这个观点也许是正确的，但只有当政府良好的系统由可信赖的人执掌时，这个观点才是完全正确的。
This meeting, a smaller one of the party’s central committee immediately afterwards and a session of the legislature in March 2013 will endorse the biggest shuffle in China’s leadership for a decade.
这次的会议，相对年轻的新一代中央委员（之后立即就任），2013年3月份的一系列的立法会议将会支持这次在未来十年中中国领导层的最大一次洗牌。

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.
"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."
最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“
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I think it can because to me, it seems that it's very similar to the process of electing representatives for legislature.
我认为是可以的，因为对我来说这非常类似于,选举立法代表的过程。
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Marriage is a contract, they said, and the legislature sets the terms of that contract.
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Therefore, we need the legislature more forward-looking vision.
因此,我们的立法机关更需要一些前瞻性眼光。