Legislators
['lɛdʒɪs,letɚ]
Examples
- Through a process of training which has already made them good citizens they are now to be made good legislators. Plato. The Republic.
- These reflections made our legislators pause, before they could decide on the laws to be put in force. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Veneering pervades the legislative lobbies, intent upon entrapping his fellow-legislators to dinner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The proprietors of land were anciently the legislators of every part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We cannot understand how Plato's legislators or guardians are to be fitted for their work of statesmen by the study of the five mathematical sciences. Plato. The Republic.
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