While the constitution prescribes that Congress shall step in to resolve such a tie, and while a couple of early 19th-century elections were close enough for Congress to get involved, there really are no applicable precedents.
"New medication was prescribed that day.
The doctor who prescribed that never talked to the one who prescribed the statin.
At one point, when Mr. Hauck referred to the Constitution, Judge Collyer, 67, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and also serves on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, interrupted to note that the Constitution prescribed three branches of government, and that she represented one of them.
The Constitution has prescribed that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, and there is no one proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective numbers of the States, will yield the number and allotment of Representatives proposed by the bill.
The 1956 constitution prescribed the use of English (the administrative language during the colonial period) for official purposes for 20 years, and the 1962 constitution made that use indefinite.
Constitutional government cannot survive effectively in situations in which the constitution prescribes a pattern of behaviour or of conducting affairs that is alien to the customs and way of thinking of the people.
Next year, when he turns 30 the age that Chechnya's constitution prescribes as the minimum for its president Mr Kadyrov's de facto power may become official.
It was the second time since 2001, when Christie Whitman resigned and turned over the governor's office to Donald T. DiFrancesco, that a governor was replaced, as the state Constitution prescribes, by an acting governor -- who also remained Senate president for more than a year.
For the Constitution prescribes the method of 'alteration' by the amending process in Article V; and while the procedure for amending it is restricted, there is no restraint on the kind of amendment that may be offered.
