Sentence examples for a constitutional division from inspiring English sources

By golly, it seems that the Pastor believes that saying "We want one," à la Tinkerbell, is on about the same level as a constitutional division of church and state.

This made civilian control increasingly problematic when coupled with a cumbersome constitutional division of powers between the President as commander-in-chief, and the Congress with its power to raise armies, maintain a navy, and wage wars.

We're living in a time of deep constitutional division, but severe disagreement is nothing new, and raucous debate is a sign of health, not decay.

If such a general rule or law is to be promulgated it would seem that under our constitutional division of governmental powers such a regulatory policy should be considered and determined by Congress under its exclusive grant.

It can block radical reform, because the constitutional division of powers between president and prime minister is murky.

James Farrell Minneapolis, July 8, 2008 • To the Editor: James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher would have us believe that the constitutional division of war powers is ambiguous.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] and the stateSIR You describe how American courts have struggled to determine whether school vouchers violate the constitutional division of church and state (September 4th).

While political scientists and foreign-policy practitioners often criticize the constitutional division of power between the executive and legislative branches for causing excessive confusion, American foreign policy benefits from checks and balances.

"As a matter of constitutional theory, we should be very nervous about unilateral executive pronouncements that don't rest on firm authority," said Jack Rakove, a Stanford University history professor who studies the way 210 years of politics have molded the constitutional division of power.

That same American had "an instinctive sense that... excessive centralization means the threat of ultimate loss of personal liberties, and that our constitutional division of powers between the central government, the state governments and the people is right and must be preserved at all costs".

At a public hearing on the treaty with Europe last week, Maine state Rep. Sharon Treat (D) argued that both the proposed pact with Europe and the TPP may run counter to the United States' constitutional division of power between the state and federal governments.