The phrase "as a constitutional ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing legal or constitutional justifications for a particular action or decision.
Example: "The court ruled in favor of the defendant, citing the right to free speech as a constitutional ground for their defense."
Alternatives: "on constitutional grounds" or "as a basis in the constitution".
In the constitutional fight that has ensued over whether Mr. Chávez can legally start a new term without showing up for the scheduled swearing in, both sides in Venezuela have at times seemed to stake out shifting constitutional ground as they have angled for political advantage.
Ted Olson, former George W. Bush solicitor general, attorney behind the case against California's gay marriage ban, and husband of a woman who died aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, said Wednesday that President Obama was right about his analysis of the "Ground Zero Mosque" as a constitutional right protected by the First Amendment.
What if he has no intention of conceding real constitutional ground, let alone letting his battered people have a say?
The approval of the mosque at Ground Zero shouldn't even be framed as a constitutional question.
Because Whelan's textual argument for judicial restraint fails, he must justify restraint as a constitutional construction--and that would require a further argument grounded in the spirit of the law that he has not yet made.
It was a bad decision on constitutional grounds, and a bad one for American education.
Optimists point to a Constitutional amendment proposed by Democractic Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Michael Bennet of Colorado: as Citizen United was decided on Constitutional grounds, only a change to the Constitution would allow lawmakers to even begin to rein in the flood of outside spending.
"The law had to, as a constitutional matter, adjust".
Amadeo attempted to rule as a constitutional monarch.
I took the chair as a constitutional agnostic.
