The Book of the Covenant, Exodus xxi, legislates for slaves, both male and female, but especially for those of Hebrew race.
The Hebrew law, however, in that case legislates most awkwardly for what could hardly happen in its endeavour exhaustively to express the law of retaliation which was to rule the case.
No nation legislates for universal humanity on philanthropic principles; it legislates for itself.
When God legislates once He legislates for aye, for truth is unchanging and cannot be improved on as the world grows older.
He is obliged to take the reports of others, and consequently very often legislates unadvisedly.
In a democracy, every one legislates, and every one legislates for his own interests.
The House virtually both deliberates andlegislates in small sections.
This foreign master of the art of governing legislates in the interests of his own people, who are the only source of his country's power or greatness, and he leaves the income of the large farm or small one where it is made.
This then is the other half, without which she would be where we are: France legislates to keep her wealth in her own country - and her loss on that canal is only one plum out of her heeping bushel.
Christ, as a teacher of law and morals, legislates for the heart.
Even the law of the Ten Commandments legislated against adultery only as an outward act, but Christ legislates against the thought.
He thus retains, though without the deeper suggestiveness of Leibniz's speculative insight, the view that thought precedes reality and legislates for it.
Our reason legislates only for the world of appearance.
Truth is wider than reality, is logically prior to it, and instead of being dependent upon the actual, legislates for it.
The spectator projects his own motion into the heavens; human reason legislates for the domain of natural science.
Through these judgments a creature five feet high, and correspondingly limited by temporal conditions, legislates for all existence and for all time.
These are the persons who cause the word to be spoken which I am about to utter; for them the legislator legislates of necessity, and in the hope that there may be no need of his laws.
Any one who sees all this, naturally rushes to the conclusion of which I was speaking, that no mortal legislates in anything, but that in human affairs chance is almost everything.
Reason legislates a priori for freedom and its peculiar casuality; as the supersensible in the subject, for an unconditioned practical knowledge.
It is the body which indirectly appoints and controls the Executive, and directly legislates for Ireland.
The British Parliament at Westminster, in which sit no Irish members, which legislates for Great Britain, and for the whole of the British Empire, except Ireland, but which does not in general at any rate legislate for Ireland.
Nor is it strictly apposite to say that the Imperial Parliament legislates for the Colonies in the absence of colonial representatives.
When such a law-giver as Christ legislates concerning such a thing, there is but one thing he can consistently enjoin: and that is its instant termination.
Hence, let its meaning be what it may, it legislates nothing for or against slavery.
If the cabinet to-day legislates with the advice and consent of the House, it administers subject to its constant supervision and criticism.
But it is not the world of things which legislates for man; it is man who legislates for it.
Logic legislates for the reason, and decerns the laws which the intellect must obey if it would think correctly.
This "spirit or conscience" "legislates without appeal except to himself.
As an accredited judge, invested with full powers, he sits in the tribunal of our inner kingdom, decides upon the past, and legislates upon the future without appeal except to himself.
Hence follows the third practical principle of the Will, as supreme condition of its agreement with universal practical Reason--the idea of the Will of every rational being as a Will that legislates universally.
It legislates upon many questions at one and the same time, and it has the power to decide the woman question and the negro question at one and the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legislates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
