legislating

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Now, dogmatizing is laying down dogmas, just as legislating is making laws. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius
It’s a tiresome business, this legislating!” And the senator smiled, as if he rather liked the idea of considering himself a sacrifice to his country. — Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Then the Council began to settle what they called the “minor details.” As if any Englishman legislating for natives knows enough to know which are the minor and which are the major points, from the native point of view, of any measure! — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling

legislation, lawmaking

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