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Council vs Legislature - What's the difference?

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Council is a related term of legislature.


As nouns the difference between council and legislature

is that council is a committee that leads or governs (eg city council, student council) while legislature is legislature.

council

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • Discussion or deliberation.
  • * Milton
    • Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • O great in action and in council wise.

    Hyponyms

    * synod

    See also

    * counsel

    legislature

    English

    (wikipedia legislature)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
  • (Canada) A legislative building.

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