After Carswell's defeat, Nixon said," I have reluctantly concluded--with the Senate presently constituted--I cannot successfully nominate to the Supreme Court any federal appellate judge from the South who believes as I do in the strict construction of the Constitution".
For the purposes of the present discussion, let this be taken as true; still, maladministration of its local affairs by a city's constituted authorities cannot rightfully concern the national, government, unless it involves the infringement of some Federal right.
She reënters, but this time she's walking on the ceiling and declaiming her views on women's rights, while conceding that "until society be differently constituted much cannot be expected".
It is the responsibility of the Democratic Party to stop this insanity because the GOP as it is currently constituted simply cannot.
Justice Felix Frankfurter, whose restraint Wilkinson praises, said that the Constitution is "not a document but a stream of history". If so, it is not a constitution; it cannot constitute if its meanings are fluid and constantly flowing in the direction of the preferences of contemporary majorities.
But many have already realised that the LDP as currently constituted cannot represent their policy ambitions.
It is that the board of a large public company, as presently constituted, cannot credibly evaluate management's strategy or respond to activist criticisms of that strategy.
Ian Watmore's sudden resignation last week as the chief executive of the Football Association, the game's governing body, could be seen as a public demonstration that football as currently constituted cannot progressively run itself.
The implication is not that they will win - but rebel forces as presently constituted cannot gain a victory either.
The Party as presently constituted cannot, and will not.
Similarly, David Grinspoon has suggested a "living worlds hypothesis" in which our understanding of what constitutes habitability cannot be separated from life already extant on a planet.
