legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
plenum — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
senate — an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
house of representatives — the lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies, as in the United States, Mexico, and Japan.
