Sentence examples for * the constitutionalism of from inspiring English sources

First, there is what we might call "big-C Constitutionalism"—the constitutionalism of text and doctrine, of the document itself and its interpretation by the Supreme Court.

Understood in this way, the constitutionalism of text and doctrine does not supplant or drive social change.

Following Thomas Aquinas, the traditional criteria have not strayed far from the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, but more recent natural law arguments, such as those of Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin, have proffered secular standards emanating from the procedural ideals of the rule of law or the constitutionalism of American liberalism.

His usurpation of the throne had meant not only the expulsion of a Roman Catholic sovereign whose rule seemed to threaten Sweden's Lutheranism but also the defeat of the aristocratic constitutionalism of the Council of State, and it had been followed by the execution of five leading members of the high aristocracy.

The rooted constitutionalism of the English – and the same is true of the Scots – is so far taken for granted that we think of it as a genetic trait rather than the product of fortunate historical circumstance.

The specific constitutionalism of the EU, the paper argues, is a three-level system of government that works through an inverse hierarchy.

Section 3 has been defended, however, by reference to the enhanced morality and constitutionalism of the new system, prompted by an "incoming tide" of human rights.

The liberal constitutionalism of Weimar Germany was his chief piece of evidence for this conviction; during the 1930s he fervently supported the National Socialist regime, one whose emergency powers were just those that he thought necessary.

This message was spelled out in an editorial in a reformist newspaper on January 1st, entitled "The Dream of Constitutionalism".

This turn to selection-based analysis yields fresh insight into the dynamics of constitutionalism.

70 The principles of constitutionalism and the rule of law lie at the root of our system of government.