Might get confusing to some. Hope this helps realign thoughts.
(source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/)
LEGISLATURE: a body of persons having the power to legislate; specifically, an organized body having the authority to make laws for a political unit.
ex. Our legislature passed a law requiring people to wear safety belts.
LEGISLATOR: one that makes laws especially for a political unit
ex. The legislators met in an all-night session to hammer out the details of the bill.
LEGISLATION
: the exercise of the power and function of making rules (as laws) that have the force of authority by virtue of their promulgation by an official organ of a state or other organization.
ex. One of the important functions of government is legislation.
: a matter of business for or under consideration by a legislative body
ex. She introduced legislation for protecting the environment.
LEGISLATIVE
: belonging to the branch of government that is charged with such powers as making laws, levying and collecting taxes, and making financial appropriations
ex. the legislative branch of government
: of or relating to a legislature
ex. she is interested in the legislative process
MEASURE (in the context of legislation): a proposed legislative act
ex. The legislature has passed a measure aimed at protecting the consumers.
GOVERNMENT
(This entry comes from Encyclopædia Britannica Concise. For the full entry on government, visit Britannica.com.)
Political system by which a body of people is administered and regulated. Different levels of government typically have different responsibilities. The level closest to those governed is local government. Regional governments comprise a grouping of individual communities. National governments nominally control all the territory within internationally recognized borders and have responsibilities not shared by their subnational counterparts. Most governments exerciseexecutive, legislative (see legislature), and judicial (seejudiciary) powers and split or combine them in various ways. Some also control the religious affairs of their people; others avoid any involvement with religion. Political forms at the national level determine the powers exercised at the subnational levels; these have included autocracy,democracy, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy, plutocracy (government by the wealthy), theocracy, andtotalitarianism.
Form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections. In a direct democracy, the public participates in government directly (as in some ancient Greek city-states, some New England town meetings, and some cantons in modern Switzerland). Most democracies today are representative. The concept of representative democracy arose largely from ideas and institutions that developed during the European Middle Ages and the Enlightenment and in the American and French Revolutions. Democracy has come to imply universal suffrage, competition for office, freedom of speech and the press, and the rule of law. See also republic.
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