Sentence examples for constitutional act from inspiring English sources
After a fiery debate in the British House of Commons, the Constitutional Act of 1791 gave the same constitution to the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec, respectively).
Constitutional Act amending Chapter III of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia.
Established by the Constitutional Act of 1791 "for the support and maintenance of a Protestant clergy," the Clergy Reserves amounted to one-seventh of all land grants.
The struggle was long and complicated, but, when William and Mary became the English monarchs in 1689, Presbyterianism was permanently established in Scotland by constitutional act.
Their impact in Quebec was even greater than in Nova Scotia and led to the creation of the Constitutional Act of 1791.
Mobutu agreed to government reforms set forth in the Transitional Constitutional Act (1994), but real reforms and promised elections never took place.
Under Dicey's theory parliament is free to pass any law it chooses; there are no "special" or "constitutional" acts; and no parliament may bind its successors.
One of his last constitutional acts was to sign Handel's naturalization papers, and now that the composer was a true Brit there was no bar to his composing the music for the new king's coronation.
According to the Constitution, the King had the right to postpone a non-constitutional act three times.
Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, declared the Ukrainian moves "anti-constitutional acts" and in a phone call to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, demanded that the UN condemn them.
