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Legislative council   /lˈɛdʒəslˌeɪtɪv kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
Legislative council

noun
1.
A unicameral legislature.





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"Legislative council" Quotes from Famous Books



... be replaced by civil administration in the form of a Crown Colony Government. At first there will be in each of the new Colonies a Governor, an Executive Council consisting of the highest officials, and a Legislative Council, which latter shall consist of a certain number of official members and also of a nominated non-official element. But it is the wish of His Majesty's Government to introduce a representative element as soon as circumstances ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... in 1843 and the Punjab in 1849, and the powers of the East India Company transferred to the Queen in 1857, who was proclaimed Empress in 1877; the government is vested in a governor-general aided by an executive and a legislative council, under control, however, of a Secretary of State for India and council at home; there are governors and lieutenant-governors of the presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and of the various provinces; native States are all attached to and subject to the supervision ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Legislative council" :   law-makers, legislature, legislative body, general assembly, legislative assembly


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