lawgiving

Example Sentences

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Shall we then simply proclaim our own ideals as the lawgiving ones?

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

In the civil state, however, nobody is to be decreed wiser than the lawgiving authority.

From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George

In Turkey, besides their lawgiving divines they have no other writers but poets.

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir