Constitutionally, the Federal Assembly was vested with great lawmaking powers.

However, a legislature also uses resolutions to exercise one of its binding powers that isn't a lawmaking power.

Both GDR constitutions vested it with great lawmaking powers.

Patrick Henry denounced the "necessary and proper" clause as a license for Congress to ride roughshod over the supposed "limits" on its lawmaking powers.

Under the Soviet constitutions of 1924, 1936 and 1977, the Supreme Soviet was imbued with great lawmaking powers.

One complexity is the lawmaking power of judges under common law.

To oversimplify its concepts somewhat, natural law theory attempts to identify a moral compass to guide the lawmaking power of the state and to promote 'the good'.

In political society, liberty consists of being under no other lawmaking power except that established by consent in the commonwealth.

Of the four levels of local administration in China (province, region/prefecture, county/district, township), only the provincial level possesses real lawmaking power.

Another eye-catching recommendation is that because the assembly has more lawmaking powers, the party should "principally concentrate resources on elections to that institution".