Sentence examples for applying the constitution from inspiring English sources

But Congress may not legislatively supersede our decisions interpreting and applying the Constitution.

The justices have the job of applying the Constitution to the problems of a fast-changing world.

"Congress may not legislatively supersede our decisions interpreting and applying the Constitution," Chief Justice Rehnquist said on Monday in the Miranda case, United States v. Dickerson.

But there is an even broader issue at stake in the new case: The Supreme Court's muddled history in applying the Constitution to states and cities.

Wynne shows the justices hard at work at the job they were nominated and confirmed to do: interpreting and applying the constitution of the United States.

If he, as president, were to decide that the federal courts had been wrong in applying the Constitution in cases about, say, religious liberty, "legislation would remove the power of the courts to hear" them.

He will strictly apply the Constitution and laws, not legislate from the bench.

The goal, he says, is "to apply the Constitution's enduring values to changing circumstances".

Mr Bush says she will "strictly apply the constitution...and not legislate from the bench".

A justice should work to apply the constitution, not please a certain constituency.

A person who will faithfully apply the Constitution and keep our founding promise of equal justice under law.