legislate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LEG'ISLATE, verb intransitive [Latin lex, legis, law, and fero, latum, to give, pass or enact.] To make or enact a law or laws. It is a question whether it is expedient to legislate at present on the subject. Let us not legislate when we have no power to enforce our laws.
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