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According to Discovery Ed, the legislative branch is explained in article 1 of the US constitution

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The definition of the legislative branch. The legislative branch makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending policies.

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To ensure a separation of powers, the U.S. Federal Government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. To ensure the government is effective and citizens’ rights are protected, each branch has its own powers and responsibilities, including working with the other branches.

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Located in the U.S. capital building in Washington D.C.

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The legislative branch is also called Congress and is made up of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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The Legislative branch has 535 members, and made up of 100 members of the Senate, and the House of Representatives has 435 members.

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The Legislative branch has no specific leader. No single person is in charge of this branch but a group of people in Congress is in charge of the branch.The groups role is to confirm or deny war, laws, and taxes.They got there role by having citizens vote for a person in their own state.

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The Legislative branch has the enumerated power included passing laws for borrowing money, regulating commerce, and imposing and collecting taxes.

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Verifying direct content navigation | Discovery Education

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They get their jobs by being elected, the Senators get elected for 6 years, Members of the House are elected for 2 years.

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The names of the two groups in this branch are Senators, and Representatives.

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To be a Senate of the congress you need to be 30 years old, be a us citizen for at least 9 years, and you must inhabit the state you represent to the time of the election.

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The Constitution does not provide an oath of office for members of Congress, but specifies only that they "shall be bound by Oath of Affirmation to support this constitution." The oath of office that one-third of the Senate recites every two years is a product of the 1860s, drafted by Civil War-era members intent on ensnaring traitors. The oath-taking, however, dates back to the First Congress in 1789. The first oath served the Senate for nearly three-quarters of a century. The current oath, in use since 1884, is a milder version of the oath adopted in 1862.

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Requirements for House of Representatives

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Requirements for House of Representatives

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To be a member of the House of Representatives you need to be at least 25 years old, be a us citizen for at least 7 years, and inhabit the state you represent at the time of the election.

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Constitutional Qualifications | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

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“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”—	U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2The Constitution placed notably few hurdles between ordinary citizens and becoming a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The founders wanted the House to be the legislative chamber closest to the people—the least restrictive on age, citizenship, and the only federal office at the time subject to frequent popular election. The Constitution requires that Members of the House be at least 25 years old, have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and live in the state they represent (though not necessarily the same district). And Article VI, clause 3 requires that all Members take an oath to support the Constitution before they exercise the duties of their office. In Federalist 52, James Madison of Virginia wrote that, “Under these reasonable limitations, the door of this part of the federal government is open to merit of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession of religious faith.”OriginsThe constitutional qualifications for office originate in British law. Members of the House of Commons had to live in the shires or boroughs they represented, although that was rarely done in practice. The founders used that example to motivate the requirement that Members of the House live in the state they represent. This would increase the likelihood that they would be familiar with the people’s interests there, but there was no mention during the debates about living in the same district. The district system emerged later as states dealt with how to fairly organize their congressional delegations. CitizenshipAt the time the U.S. Constitution was written, the British prevented anyone born outside England or its Empire from serving in the Commons, even if the individual had subsequently become a citizen. By mandating that an individual be a citizen for at least seven years, the founders attempted to strike a balance between preventing foreign interference in domestic politics and keeping the House of Representatives close to the people. The founders also did not want to discourage immigration to the new country by shutting off the government to new arrivals.AgeThe founders initially set 21, the voting age, as the minimum age to serve in the House. During the Federal Constitutional Convention, though, George Mason of Virginia moved to make the age 25. Mason said that there should be a period between being free to manage one’s own affairs and managing the “affairs of a great nation.” Convention Delegate James Wilson of Pennsylvania objected to the suggestion that any further restrictions be placed on House membership, and cited the service of William Pitt as a counterexample. Pitt, who held office at the time of the Convention, was the youngest prime minister in British history at the age of 24. Nevertheless, Mason’s amendment passed seven states to three.The House and Its MembersArticle I, section 5 of the Constitution provides the House with the authority to determine whether Members-elect are qualified to be seated. For instance, William Claiborne of Tennessee became the youngest person to ever serve in the House when he was elected and seated in 1797 at the age of 22. The House also seated Claiborne at the age of 24, when he won re-election. The House, however, has not always been so lenient. Representative John Young Brown of Kentucky was first elected to the House in the 36th Congress (1859–1861) when he was 24, but the House refused to administer the oath of office to him until he was 25—after the first session of the Congress was over.For Further ReadingFarrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Rev. ed. 4 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1937.Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay. The Federalist Papers. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. 3 vols. Boston, 1833.