LEGISLATIVE BODY

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LEGISLATIVE BODY {corps Ugislatif); an assembly, in the time of the French consulate and empire, consisting of 300 persons, which had neither the right to discuss nor to initiate a law, but merely to vote on a law proposed by the government and discussed by the tribunate (as long as that body existed), in their presence. The tribunate, on the other hand, had not the right to vote. It was an extremely lame contrivance, showing the political inexperience of the French at that time.