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anticonstitutional

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Opposed to or conflicting with the constitution, as of a state; unconstitutional.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Opposing a constitution.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ constitutional

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Examples

  • Mr. Yushchenko said Tuesday that the reported plans to change the constitution were "an anticonstitutional conspiracy," and that any such change should be decided by referendum.

    Ukrainian Parties in Coalition Negotiations 2009

  • Indeed, Lincoln's election as President rested on fundamentally anticonstitutional premises.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Indeed, Lincoln's election as President rested on fundamentally anticonstitutional premises.

    Paulsen on Lincoln and Judicial Authority Dan Ernst 2008

  • That stance, and Lincoln's election on such a platform, was featured among prominent Southerners' purported constitutional justifications for secession: the nation had just elected a lawless, anticonstitutional President who would invade the South's constitutional rights, as duly determined by the United States Supreme Court, with respect to slavery.

    Paulsen on Lincoln and Judicial Authority Dan Ernst 2008

  • That stance, and Lincoln's election on such a platform, was featured among prominent Southerners' purported constitutional justifications for secession: the nation had just elected a lawless, anticonstitutional President who would invade the South's constitutional rights, as duly determined by the United States Supreme Court, with respect to slavery.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Paul, who thinks the presidency has swollen to anticonstitutional proportions, has photos of two Austrian School economists, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, who warned against what Hayek called "the fatal conceit" of governments thinking they can allocate wealth and opportunity more reasonably than can markets.

    A Cheerful Anachronism 2007

  • There is nothing, there is no one more anticonstitutional, more antilegal, more antiparliamentary, more repressive, more violent and more criminal than the fascists.

    13TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CDR 1973

  • There is no one more anticonstitutional, more antilaw, more antiparliamentarian, more repressive, more violent, and more criminal than the fascist. [applause]

    RALLY IN SANTIAGO 1971

  • Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I'd have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

  • Their rationale for that demand, as explained by the union's chairman, Magomed Shamilov, to Caucasus Knot, was the proposal Bastrykin floated last week at a meeting of top prosecutor's office staff that Medvedev attended, to create a database containing the fingerprints of the entire North Caucasus population. condemned that proposal as discriminatory; Chechen Republic human rights ombudsman Nurdi Nukhadjiyev termed it anticonstitutional and a violation of citizens 'rights.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

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  • Driving everywhere is anticonstitutional.

    September 24, 2008

  • Could lead to cardiac surgery, er, I mean constitutional amendment.

    September 24, 2008