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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a constitutional point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a matter related to the constitution, particularly in legal or political contexts.
Example: "The lawyer raised a constitutional point regarding the legality of the new law."
Alternatives: "a constitutional issue" or "a constitutional matter".
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Universities cannot risk millions in federal dollars used for research or financial aid to make a constitutional point.
From a constitutional point of view, the most interesting question is whether any of the judges will take the lord chancellor to court.
The topless women riding around Manhattan yesterday in a big-windowed bus were trying to make a constitutional point, the bus's owners said.
"The difficulty of getting at this thing from a constitutional point of view is that there are private dollars coming from a private individual and going to a private foundation.
I cited the case of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project not to make a constitutional point — I leave it to legal scholars to determine whether or not the Supreme Court's decision represents a betrayal of our country's highest ideals — but rather to underscore the continuing value of Spinoza's philosophical one.
Of Tony Blair, Mr Hennessy remarks that his programme has been "driven through without regard for the niceties of traditional cabinet structures, the division of function between permanent officials and temporary special advisers, or any great sensitivity towards parliament".Some of this seems to matter from a constitutional point of view and some not.
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George Will, a Washington Post columnist, makes a nice constitutional point here.
He said: "These cases raise a novel constitutional point about the imposition of the death penalty on people who have intellectual disability.
Serious people disagreed about whether or not Houghton had overstepped an important constitutional point: that the military obeys elected civilian leadership.
From a legal and constitutional point of view, I consider such an act of wanton destructiveness out of the question".
The answer to the petition for rehearing by counsel for the respondent is also in the record, and contains what is in substance an admission that the constitutional point had been duly made at the time and in the manner stated by the moving party.
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