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colegislate en · VERB

Etymology

From co- + legislate. Owing to its relative frequency, and legislate too having been back-formed, probably often back-formation from colegislator.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) To necessarily bring about a statute together with another legislative body or legislature, to be a colegislator.
   • Even in Congress the States seem to bear a major vote. No act has gone beyond federal limits—many important ones have stopped far short. The States, on the other hand, keep up an almost incessant siege. There is scarcely an article which some of them have not co­legislated upon. 1860, John Church Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton. A history of the Republic of the United States of America, as traced in his writings and in those of his contemporaries, volume V, pages 113–114:
   • […] it seems we can also say that since most of his subjects are his own product, the supreme authority in a state, the sovereign, has the right to lead them into a war as he would take them on a hunt, and into battles as on a pleasure trip. While such an argument for this right (which may well be present obscurely in the monarch’s mind) holds with regard to animals, which can be one’s property, it simply cannot be applied to human beings, especially as citizens of a state. For they must always be regarded as colegislating members of a state (not merely as means, but also as ends in themselves), and must therefore give their free assent, through their representatives, not only to waging war in general but also to each particular declaration of war. 1996, Immanuel Kant, “The Metaphysics of Morals”, in Mary J. Gregor, transl., Practical Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, of the Academy edition 6:345–346, pages 483–484:

Forms

Translations (6)

ru созаконода́тельный (bringing forward a statute together) · cmn 共同立法 (bringing forward a statute together) · fi toimia yhteislainsäätäjänä (bringing forward a statute together) · sv medlagstifta (bringing forward a statute together) · fi toimia toisena lainsäätäjänä (bringing forward a statute together) · de mitgesetzgebend (bringing forward a statute together)