Sentence examples for constitution that it from inspiring English sources

He said at the time of the adoption of the Constitution that "it was the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America that Christianity ought to be favored by the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience".

Mr. Jeffords explicitly drew on the state's maverick tradition today in his announcement, noting that Vermont had been the first state to ban slavery in its Constitution; that it had elected to Congress a man who had been jailed for sedition; that a Vermont senator had spoken out against the McCarthy hearings.

China is the only country to write into its Constitution that it will be "The Ecological Civilization".

The British Board of Deputies, the primary representative body of British Jews, claims in its constitution that it seeks to advance "Israel's security, welfare and standing".

Egyptian state television called the turnout a mark of approval for the military's current transition timetable: transfer to an elected president by July, after the military has had a chance to shape the writing of a new constitution that it has suggested should enshrine its power and autonomy from civilian government.

The army retains 25% of seats in parliament under a 2008 constitution that it drafted, giving it an effective veto on constitutional change.

There's nothing in our Constitution that says it should be hard for people to vote.

Instead, this government has gifted the army with a constitution that indemnifies it.

He picked a fight over a clause in Labour's constitution that said it aspired to nationalise all economic activity.

In exchange, Mr Ecevit has offered to scrap an article of the constitution that makes it possible to ban political parties.

We can postpone arguing about the true meaning of the Second Amendment while we band together to fight for the Constitution that precedes it.