Sentence examples for constitution refers from inspiring English sources

Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, has pointed out that Article 24 of Japan's (American-written) constitution refers to marriage as based on the mutual consent of "both sexes".

The United States Constitution refers to treason, bribery and "high crimes and misdemeanors," itself a complicated legal term, but the Connecticut Constitution doesn't even offer those guidelines.

Article 233 of the constitution refers to the "absolute absence" of a president, meaning he is deemed permanently incapacitated.

Key to the success of Syria's political survival is the economy - the new constitution refers to plans to raise living standards and create jobs by increasing economic growth.

Article 20 of the Constitution refers to each citizen's freedom "to profess religion and to manage religious institutions".

"I will do almost anything for a good number," he said in a 1998 interview with The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, referring to ratings.

He read the Constitution, for instance, to outlaw the death penalty even though provisions of the Constitution refer approving to capital punishment.

The constitution referred to the country's "citizens", which for the first time in Polish legislation was meant to include townspeople and peasants, as well as nobles.

The constitution still refers to it as "sacred".This matters.

(Indeed, the Constitution never refers to a "slave" but to a "person held to service or labor").

"The Constitution nowhere refers to a right of privacy in express terms," Emerson argued in his brief.