Sentence examples for constitution instead of the from inspiring English sources

As if Wilson's 1975 stratagem was some deeply embedded part of the constitution instead of the first UK-wide referendum in history, and at the time a distinctly un-British and spatchcocked solution to the split in his party.

Swearing loyalty to the Constitution instead of the president or any other person means that officials cannot manipulate officers in order to gain control over the military and become dictators.

"It is time to go back to fundamental issues of class, gender, which are fundamental to the writing, drafting of the constitution, instead of falling into the trap of this binary," he said.

If Mr. Blair simply substitutes the long-expected vote on the euro for one on the constitution, instead of putting both on the ballot, he will get his bruising political battle without actually bolstering the nation's status.

If at that time the provision of the Constitution, instead of being put there, had been embodied in a temporary act, probably no one would have questioned it, and it would be hard to take a distinction solely on the ground of its more permanent form.

Laïcité, as a constitutional value and as a principle representing the neutrality of the state regarding religion, could have been the basis for equal representation and recognition of all faiths (Art. 2 of the Constitution) instead of emerging against Islam as an "official religion of France".

Originalists rely on a unchanging and strict interpretation of the Constitution, instead of considering it a "living document".

I surely hope that the exception to this measure requires that Congress must officially declare war as defined in the Constitution instead of simply calling something a war, as is now the case.

Things aren't much better next door in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban, with the backing of the rightist Fidesz party, decided to replace the Constitution instead of simply trampling it.

But critics of Mr. Khalilzad say that the painstaking and potentially rancorous review of the Constitution under way now would not be needed if the Americans had taken the time to shepherd a more balanced Constitution, instead of one that gave short shrift to the needs of the Sunni Arabs as it tried to appeal to the Kurds and Shiites.

Earlier this week, the NRA called Feinstein's approach "wrong-headed" in a press release, and accused the veteran lawmaker of being "focused on curtailing the Constitution instead of prosecuting criminals or fixing our broken mental health system".