Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Accordance with the provisions or principles of a constitution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being constitutional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.
- noun The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law The status of being
constitutional ; of being inaccord with the provisions of the appropriateconstitution
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Examples
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"My take on the subject of constitutionality is that the federal government is constitutionally obligated to protect the economic and social interests of the minority"
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But even opponents of the freedom to have an abortion and of affirmative action, as policies, must acknowledge that the case for their constitutionality is not baseless.
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My take on the subject of constitutionality is that the federal government is constitutionally obligated to protect the economic and social interests of the minority (ranchers in WY, MT, ID, et. al.) from the capricious wishes of the majority (the liberal, big-city types coalesced into the various environmentalist groups like GreenPeace).
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The constitutionality is one part that is extremely important yet most are missing the other point.
Phil Hare (D, IL-17) does not know the first Rule of Holes. | RedState 2010
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The only reason there's any question about the law's constitutionality is that conservatives appointed five of the nine sitting justices, and conservatives have organized against the constitutionality of a proposal they once considered not just constitutional, but desirable as a matter of public policy.
Health-care reform wins its first constitutional challenge Ezra Klein 2010
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My take on the subject of constitutionality is that the federal government is constitutionally obligated to protect the economic and social interests of the minority (ranchers in WY, MT, ID, et. al.) from the capricious wishes of the majority (the liberal, big-city types coalesced into the various environmentalist groups like GreenPeace).
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"My take on the subject of constitutionality is that the federal government is constitutionally obligated to protect the economic and social interests of the minority"
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This is the same moonbat excrement when liberals try to explain constitutionality, if you make the assertion that people are dieing you are also asserting the government is committing murder.
Phil Hare (D, IL-17) does not know the first Rule of Holes. | RedState 2010
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But with NSLs -- which have been around since 1978, 18 years longer than HCF subpoenas -- the question of their constitutionality is even more serious.
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But with NSLs -- which have been around since 1978, 18 years longer than HCF subpoenas -- the question of their constitutionality is even more serious.
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