The phrase "a constitutional document" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal document that outlines the fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.
Example: "The United States Constitution is often regarded as the most important constitutional document in American history."
Alternatives: "foundational document" or "charter document".
In most modern constitutional democracies, however, there is a constitutional document providing for fixed limitations on the exercise of power.
I don't want to anticipate the debates in the referendum campaign, still less provide a textual commentary on a constitutional document which hasn't even been adopted yet.
We have inherited a constitutional document that provided we have one president, two senators per state, and the supreme court to serve as referee.
The presence of a constitutional document, however, has made American politics more consciously "constitutionalist," at least in the sense that politicians in the United States take more frequent recourse than their British counterparts to legalistic argumentation and to actual constitutional litigation.
With the mediation of Scipione Piattoli, Potocki and Poniatowski begun to reach a consensus on a more constitutional monarchy approach, and started to draft a constitutional document.
In this way the courts of the United Kingdom, though acknowledging the sovereignty of Parliament, apply principles of constitutionality little different from those which exist in countries where the power of the legislature is expressly limited by a constitutional document.
A British bill of rights must be seen as a serious constitutional document that will stand for a considerable period of time (the precedent is three centuries plus) and not as a short-term party political project.
The Rhetra is a precocious constitutional document, if it really dates to the 9th or early 8th century, and for that and other reasons (Delphi was not active and writing was not common much before the middle of the 8th century) it is common practice to date the whole document or pair of documents a century or two later.
In 1355 on his return from his imperial coronation as Holy Roman emperor, he promulgated, with the consent of the German assembly of estates, or diet (1356), a basic constitutional document, known as the Golden Bull from its pendant gold seal (bulla).
He was Singapore's alternate representative on the High Level Task Force for the Drafting of the ASEAN Charter, a key constitutional document for ASEAN, which was signed in November 2007.
They gave us what is linguistically a very precise constitutional document, and a very balanced Republic with divisions of power, clear separation of church and state, very deliberate anti-royalist and anti-aristocratic clauses, and a taxation system that was the antithesis of a monarchist England.
