Sentence examples for actions constitutional from inspiring English sources

Just because you can draw dotted lines connecting military actions does not make those actions constitutional, or sensible.

Several legal scholars believe that the "national security" test is so vague that it makes almost any action constitutional.

Passage of same-sex marriage here followed a daunting run of defeats in other states where voters barred same-sex marriage by legislative action, constitutional amendment or referendum.

He could as easily have pointed out that before President Harry Truman nationalized the steel mills, he asked Chief Justice Fred Vinson, a poker buddy and close friend, if the court would find the action constitutional.

Though such expectations are have decreased since the U.S. Supreme Court has held affirmative action constitutional [ 5], they have led to proposals of various non-race based policy to render the same or similar effects of affirmative action implementation (particularly, diversification).

Because the common law tort cause of action and constitutional action involve similar harms and considerations, it is appropriate to reconcile the presently divergent doctrines, though this could be done in one of two ways.

"But we have another problem: who has the right to interpret the Constitution?" China has no firm procedure for deciding whether government rules or actions are constitutional.

But he was certain that these actions were constitutional.

Activists charged that such actions violated constitutional guarantees of individual privacy.

The courts determined that the school's actions were constitutional because the club's activities were "quintessentially religious".

In June, a federal trial judge properly allowed a lawsuit challenging the town's actions on constitutional and statutory grounds to go forward.