LEGISLATURE- AN ORGAN OF THE GOVERNMENT
"The legislative function is the great and overruling power in every free government." Evolution of Legislature C.F. Strong says, "The legislature is that department of Government concerned with the making of laws, in so far as the law requires statutory force." Logically, law making Precedes its execution, and therefore the legislature is, at first sight, of greater importance than the executive which administers the law or the judiciary which punishes its transgressors. But, this is not always the case, since, as we will see later, the powers of the legislature to control the other two departments vary. None the less, we may agree with the American Authority who has described the legislature function as the great and overruling power in every free government." The State is a politically organised society and government is its machinery. A modern government has three branches—legislature, executive and judiciary. Among the three bran