"legislative means" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the methods or processes used in creating, proposing, and passing laws or legislation. Example: The government is considering various legislative means to address the issue of climate change, including implementing new policies and regulations.
It's all done via legislative means.
" 'The evil of protectionism can reside in legislative means as well as legislative ends.
The Dodd-Frank bill was an important but inadequate attempt to do the job from the outside, by legislative means.
With a communications bill being framed, there is even the legislative means at hand to dump the commitment.
The recent decision to outlaw memory through legislative means suggests a politics of memory based on an attempt to forcefully master the past.
Contrary to the evident assumption of the state court and the parties, the evil of protectionism can reside in legislative means, as well as legislative ends.
Last year, Google accused MPAA of conspiring to achieve SOPA's goals "through non-legislative means". However, the group has maintained that it sometimes favors fair use and that its concerns have to do with stopping illegal piracy.
The letters, which ask for information about how the agency is being set up, are the first major example of how Republicans, who now control the House but not the Senate, plan to challenge the summer's financial reform through non-legislative means.
Legislative jurisdiction means lands and waters under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction of the United States.
Yet that seems unlikely: the cost-free dynamic of legislative irresponsibility means that Congress is happy to allow Obama to wage wars in Libya and Iraq without explicit ratification.
1994) ("If legislative power means the power to make rules of conduct that bind everyone based on resolution of major policy issues, scores of agencies exercise legislative power routinely by promulgating what are candidly called 'legislative rules' ").
