Made rules member and I criticised (10)

I believe the answer is:

legislated

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'made rules' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'member and i criticised' is the wordplay.
'member' becomes 'leg' (member can mean a limb).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'criticised' becomes 'slated' (I've seen this before).
'leg'+'i'+'slated'='LEGISLATED'

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(Another definition for legislated that I've seen is " Laid down the law".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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