Sentence examples for constitution in the first from inspiring English sources

In a last-minute deal aimed at getting the Sunnis on board, the constitutional drafters added a mechanism to review and amend the constitution in the first half of the new year.

Whether the establishment of such a right was required by the Constitution in the first place, it said, was a question for another day.

The specter of Specter helping the president have his way with Congress has actually made conservatives remember why they respected the Constitution in the first place.

It's worth remembering that the whole point of drawing up the constitution in the first place was supposed to be to "reconnect" the EU with voters.

They offer a different root cause for the government's contortions: they blame Tony Blair, the former prime minister, for offering a referendum on the constitution in the first place.

While brilliant, cocksure and a good speaker of English, he smacks of the same "we-know-what's-good-for-you" aristocratic leadership that doomed the EU constitution in the first place.

"We've already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals," Levinson wrote.

The first two are principles enshrined in the US constitution: in the fourth amendment that guarantees freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and in the structure of American government itself.

This was both success – in getting the constitution amended in the first place – and ultimate failure on a colossal scale.

But in an e-mail to House Judiciary Committee members considering the measure, Mr. Judy wrote that the federal law "does not provide adequate protection" and argued that individual firearm rights were more broadly protected in Washington's State Constitution than in the Second Amendment.

Slavery, of course, was wholly abolished from the Constitution in the 1860s with the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, which is why no constitutional scholar today, right, left or center, would argue that the Constitution -- whether construed strictly, loosely, or just right -- condones the institution.