The phrase "constitute a plan" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing or referring to an idea or set of arrangements that have been made to achieve a certain goal. For example: The strategies she had put in place constituted a plan to improve her business operations.
such plan shall not constitute a plan described in section 403(a) or 405(a) of such Code and a trust forming a part of such plan shall not constitute a qualified trust under section 401(a) of such Code.
However, a deduction claimed in connection with a separate transaction carried on by the same partnership is not a tax shelter item if the transaction does not constitute a plan or arrangement the principal purpose of which is to avoid or evade tax.
An Uber exec's naive, off-hand remark at a party might not constitute a plan of corporate action, but journalists are the bell-ringers who alarm the populace.
In the end, Ryan's "blueprint" amounts to shutting down government and hoping for the best, which does not constitute a plan at all, and shows that his boss is either unable or unwilling to do the hard work required of a leader.
Whether or not Richard A. Clarke's report to Condoleezza Rice constitutes a "plan" is irrelevant.
Actually, if describing what you want to see happen without providing any specific policies to get us there constitutes a "plan," I can easily come up with a one-point plan that trumps Mr. Romney any day.
And Whitman, who brandishes a pamphlet she persists in calling a book and pretends that loose talk about balancing the budget by cutting taxes for the very rich and eliminating $15 billion in spending she can't identify constitutes a "plan," is just that.
Titled "Civil War: Alt-left Plans Anti-trump Riots in Major Cities on November 4," it asserts that a polemic by an activist named Andy Zee on a blog called Refusefascism.org constitutes a plan by "Alt-left agitators" to "stage mass riots in major cities on November 4 during which they hope to instigate a 'civil war' that will lead to the 'regime change' of the Trump administration".
He won't vote on a longterm raising of the debt ceiling without a comprehensive plan, and no one has convinced him that such caps constitute a "comprehensive plan".
Indeed, since most plans change some details of their coverage every year, it is not even clear what would constitute a "new" plan.
