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legislature

noun as in governmental body, most often elected, that makes laws

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“We start with a presumption that the legislature acted in good faith,” Alito wrote for a 6-3 majority last year in a South Carolina case.

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The exam requirement was suspended in 2018 and this year the legislature voted to permanently remove it.

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“Our legislature eliminated the trigger because Texas had already triggered it,” Mitchell said Tuesday.

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The state legislature’s medical affairs committee’s first hearing on the bill last month saw hundreds of South Carolinians gathered to testify and bear witness.

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The referendum result is a blow to Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, who had campaigned to change the constitution in order to reverse a ban that the country's legislature passed in 2008.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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