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Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..

Lobbyist :: Lobbyist (n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.

Representative :: Representative (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress..

Legislature :: Legislature (n.) The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.

Bill :: Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law..

Organ :: Organ (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government..

Watch :: Watch (v. t.) To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature..

Legislatorial :: Legislatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..

District :: District (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives..

Witenagemote :: Witenagemote (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest..

Capitol :: Capitol () The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse..

Specially :: Specially (adv.) For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned..

Conference :: Conference (n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them..

Present :: Present (a.) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment..

House :: House (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament..

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

State :: State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland..

Referendum :: Referendum (n.) The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.

Session :: Session (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term..

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