legislate
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They’ve packed town halls, prompted state and local political leaders to legislate limits on their growth or even to ban them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
“You can’t legislate that, you can’t mandate it, but I think if you ask people, ‘Could we be better?’—I think you won’t get a better result unless you make the ask.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
It’s done at the state level, and Congress can legislate to alter the time, place, and manner of elections.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
And Washington, for all of its efforts to reshape the economy, can’t legislate aging away.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
“The lawgivers of antiquity...legislated for single cities,” Adams observed, but “who can legislate for 20 or 30 states, each of which is greater than Greece or Rome at those times?”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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