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When a government passes a new law, it is exercising its LEGISLATIVE POWER.

The Legislative Power or Legislature is a deliberative assembly that has the exclusive authority to create laws for a political entity such as a country or city, in addition to administering the State budget. Legislatures are an important part of most governments; in the separation of powers model, it is contrasted with the executive and judicial branches of the State and at the same time it is responsible for controlling its actions in accordance with the constitutional provisions.

Laws enacted by legislatures are known as legislation. Legislatures observe and direct government actions and generally have exclusive authority to modify the budget or budgets involved in the process.

The members of a legislature are called legislators. In a representative democracy, legislators are popularly directly elected, proportional elections are used in other regimes, and appointment by the executive is also used, particularly for bicameral legislatures that have a high chamber.

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