Word of the Day:
legislator
What It Means
especially a member of a legislative body.
especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
Legislator in Context
“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...”
Did You Know?
From Latin lēgislātor.
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