Sentence examples for a constitution as from inspiring English sources

The CIO held its first convention in Pittsburgh, Pa., in November 1938, adopting a new name (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and a constitution as well as electing John L. Lewis as its president.

Tanzimat, a 19th-century period of reform, was a brief stab at modernization when the Ottomans established a Parliament and, briefly, a Constitution, as well as giving more rights to ethnic and religious minorities.

That's doubly true for a Constitution as sacralized as ours.

When asked by her interviewer how best to draft a constitution and protect it from contemporary political pressures (perhaps alluding to Islamic parties' dominance in the new parliament's lower house), Justice Ginsburg answered, "A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom".

A constitution, as the example of British constitutional democracy suggests, need not be a single written instrument; indeed, the essence of a constitution is that it formalizes a set of fundamental norms governing the political community and determining the relations between the rulers and the people and the interaction among the centres of power.

It is wrong, therefore, to regard a constitution as nothing more than the set of all particular constitutional norms, and to assume that all these norms are equally subject to constitutional amendment.

The conference is designed to include a timeframe for a new constitution, as well as presidential and parliamentary elections.

The constitutional court had appeared poised to dissolve within weeks the body writing a new constitution, as well as the Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament.

He said last week that democratic elections must be held for delegates who can then draft a new constitution, as happened in Namibia.

The failure in 2007 prompted a new wave of student activism in 2011 to fight for both a new progressive constitution as well as free college education.

It is reassuring to see a representative cite the Constitution as easily as a preacher cites the Bible.