statute-making
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This kind of statute-making went on at intervals to the 1st of Philip & Mary, when an Act was passed for the Reformation of Excessive Apparel.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
The subject of statute-making is not thought difficult; it is supposed to be perfectly capable of discussion by any one of our State legislators, with or without legal training; and sometimes with lamentable consequences.
From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup
All Peers being from the first—indeed, even in utero—ordained law-makers, statute-making comes to them by nature.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various
The history of statute-making is not absolutely divested of pleasantry.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill