The phrase "ability to legislate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the power or capacity of an individual or body to create laws or regulations.
Example: "The committee's ability to legislate effectively will determine the success of the proposed reforms."
Alternatives: "capacity to enact laws" or "power to make legislation".
In March, he announced an expansion of the parliament's ability to legislate.
Another important step would be to make the process for reporting N.C.A.A. violations uniform, taking away a conference's ability to legislate potential troubles away.
When Mr. Osipov's ability to legislate from the beyond caught public attention, his allies explained that he had designated colleagues to vote on his behalf.
When Republicans took over the House and expanded their ranks in the Senate, Obama lost much of his ability to legislate.
Recent court decisions have already expanded the immunity of states from the reach of federal law, narrowing Congress's ability to legislate national remedies to national problems, including civil rights.
Accordingly, last Tuesday night, citizens stared bug-eyed at red-and-blue maps on their TV screens to puzzle out whether Kansans, who constitute less than one per cent of the population, or similarly minuscule bands of Alaskans, Arkansans, or Iowans might determine President Obama's ability to legislate, appoint judges, and ratify treaties.
"If Congress is not able to take care of those two priorities by next Friday," though, said Harkins, "the ability for Congress to legislate truly has come to an end".
Other mistakes were made out of electoral cynicism, although pandering to public fears and stoking an obsession with crime is ultimately self-defeating – an unregulated appetite for punishment will always outstrip a government's capacity to legislate or ability to fund yet more prison cells.
The DSG reforms restored the ability of the House majority to legislate by empowering the Speaker, the only House figure elected by all of the members.
The draft Investigatory Powers Bill also has some distinctly ambiguous wording when it comes to encryption — suggesting the U.K. government is still seeking to legislate a general ability that companies be able to decrypt communications.
Already we have seen moves by both California and Maryland to legislate away the ability to truly innovate in this space.
