| 单词 | state legislation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstate legislation state legislation n. legislation governing a state (sense 29a), esp. as contrasted with federal legislation; (occasionally also) legislation governing the State or nation. ΚΠ 1788 Deb. & Proc. Constit. Convent. State N.Y. 45 Let us consider the powers of the national government, and compare them with the objects of state legislation. 1791 W. Harper Christian Remembrancer 8 The copious..libations poured out..at the London Tavern, had rendered the minds of many as unfit to govern themselves..as to form any wise and virtuous system of State legislation. 1837 Plaindealer 6 May 354/1 We desire to see banking divorced not only from federal legislation, but from state legislation. 1933 Rotarian Sept. 45/2 There is some state legislation restricting the working hours of truck drivers, but no such federal legislation. 1970 K. F. Walker Austral. Industr. Relations Syst. i. i. 12 Once the federal tribunal entered a field it covered it to the exclusion of state legislation. 2011 P. Dixon & R. Gellman Online Privacy ii. 56 States also began to pass regulatory legislation, but, given the absence of geographical borders on the Internet, state legislation was not very effective. < as lemmas |
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