Sentence examples for constitution was enacted from inspiring English sources

To allow the Judiciary powers greater than those conferred by the Constitution, as the fundamental nature of those powers was understood when the Constitution was enacted, would upset the division of federal powers central to the constitutional scheme.

A revised constitution was enacted in 1991 that allowed for multiparty participation in government.

More provocative but also persuasive is Amar's contention that it includes principles inferred from how the written Constitution was enacted.

Until the new constitution was enacted and a new president elected, the Nationalists would continue to be the ruling party.

A new constitution was enacted in 1898 that disenfranchised nearly all African Americans, and a system of legalized discrimination, in the form of segregation, ensued shortly thereafter.

The first constitution was enacted in 1835, but statehood was delayed until 1837 by the so-called Toledo War, a boundary dispute with Ohio.

1937 Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish constitution, is enacted and proclaims Ireland as a sovereign state.

Four amendments to the Constitution were enacted, including women's suffrage and the direct election of senators, as well as the imposition of an income tax and the prohibition of alcohol.

Several amendments to the state constitution were enacted during Gardner's term.

These rulings were carried into the new Japanese constitution that was enacted in 1947.

Domestically, Mr. Abe's biggest test could come as he tries to revise Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, which was enacted by American postwar occupiers in 1947.