Sentence examples for by constitution from inspiring English sources

What do we mean by "Constitution"?

Turkey, by constitution and military oversight, remains Atatürk's secular state.

(By "constitution," read women's rights — anathema to the Taliban, and a prerequisite for Afghanistan's Western supporters).

SAO PAULO ASKS LATITUDE.; Brazilian State's Plea to Be Studied by Constitution Makers.

Archives|SAO PAULO ASKS LATITUDE.; Brazilian State's Plea to Be Studied by Constitution Makers.

Mr Karzai will argue that he has striven to abide by constitution, and hope to remain in office.

When Bentham turned his thoughts to constitutional law in earnest in the 1820s, partly inspired by constitution-making in parts of southern Europe, it was with the conviction that all states in which the institutions of representative democracy already existed or in which they could be introduced were fertile soil for the utilitarian pannomion.

It is governed by mutual understanding rather than by constitutions or treaties.

Most African countries are now governed by constitutions that are—at least on paper more or less democratic.

The structure and substance of the Constitution were heavily influenced by constitutions of Western powers and by Belarus' experiences during the Soviet era.

We have witnessed a process of Europeanisation of powers conferred on the regions by Constitutions.