legislative power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 277 U.S. 189 - Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands Agoncillo · 1928Most cited · 668 citing opinions
Legislative power, as distinguished from executive power, is the authority to make laws, but not to enforce them or appoint the agents charged with the duty of such enforcement. The latter are executive functions.
How often courts cite the case defining “legislative power”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legislative power” — 667 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.