The phrase "adapt the constitution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications to a constitution, often in a legal or political context.
Example: "In order to address the evolving needs of society, it may be necessary to adapt the constitution to reflect contemporary values."
Alternatives: "amend the constitution" or "revise the constitution".
He denounced the haste of the voting, and said: "It is shameful that we are agreeing to adapt the constitution to one man, Slobodan Milosevic, who should rule forever and move from one presidential armchair into another until infinity".
Ever since then, European and American officials have tried everything to cajole Bosnia's leaders to adapt the constitution - but they have had no success.
If the methods of securing formal amendment are difficult (as in the United States, with its requirements of ratification by three-quarters of state legislatures), there may be pressures to adapt the constitution through judicial interpretation.
Millhiser's argument about Madison is especially odd, given that Madison was the leading author of the Constitution itself, and the co-author (with Hamilton as well as John Jay) of the Federalist Papers, which were the key articles that convinced Americans to adapt the new constitution, and which argued strongly for a stronger federal government.
But, she added, "work is now being done to update and adapt the schools to the new Constitution and the needs of the nation," a prospect that has generated further discord.
Before debates about the Constitution began, states grappled with how to adapt the lofty ideals promised by the Declaration of Independence to the reality of slavery.
Debate in Egypt, as the Arabist blog put it, centres on how to proceed with either a new constitution or adapting the current one to the new circumstances.
Brown's was also the first administration to operate under the Kentucky Constitution of 1891, and most of the legislature's time was spent adapting the state's code of laws to the new constitution.
The reversible hydrophobic interactions allow to both capsule and inorganic silica components to mutually (synergistically) adapt their spatial constitution during simultaneous (collective) formation of self-organized hybrid domains.
Both supramolecular and polymeric components mutually (synergistically) adapt their spatial constitution during simultaneous (collective) formation of micrometric self-organized hybrid domains.
His latest book, "The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century," lands at No. 1 on the paperback nonfiction list.
