Sentence examples for constitution means from inspiring English sources

If, as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicts, in 25 years the interests cited by the law school will be found insufficiently compelling to pass constitutional muster, then they cannot pass constitutional muster today, for "the Constitution means the same thing today as it will in 300 months".

Its nine members decide what the constitution means.

That is, he thinks the constitution means what it says, nothing more.

Republican opponents are certain to revive the false charge that respecting the Constitution means coddling terrorists.

The constitution "means a lot to him and he will not violate it", Kikaya said.

But "What the Constitution Means to Me" is structured to fend off despair.

I said America needed judges who believed that the Constitution means what it says.

For Stevens, then, original intent is one factor — but only one — that should tell a Justice what the Constitution means.

The judiciary has the power to say what the Constitution means and make sure the elected branches apply it properly.

But if the Supreme Court justices aren't the ultimate authority on what the Constitution means, who is?

Here he seems to think that "an establishment of religion" forbidden in the U.S. Constitution means a particular religion and that government expressions of religion in general are just fine, which of course they are not.