Comment | Even though legislatures fulfill the role of a "Gesetzgeber," the German word "Gesetzgeber" is broader than legislature. While it is true that legislatures (also known, depending on where you are, as General Assemblies, parliaments, etc.) make laws, they are not the only bodies that do so. The problem, really, is that the term "law" and the term "Gesetz" really encompass more than "just" the laws coming from a legislature. Administrative regulations, for instance, are laws, too, and those do not come from legislatures. Presidentials orders are laws of a sort, treaties are laws of a sort, and so forth.
The point here is that while the proposed translation certainly isn't intrinsically false, the terms to be matched up here just don't precisely fit each other. Legislature is more specific, Gesetzgeber is less specific. I would not enter such a pair. |
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