Sentence examples for constitutional authority from inspiring English sources

Law and constitutional authority must be established.

He claims the federal government is overstepping its constitutional authority.

Al-Qaida sought to destroy nascent constitutional authority in Iraq.

The case focuses on whether Congress overstepped its constitutional authority in enacting parts of the law.

The government claimed that right under its constitutional authority to "regulate" "commerce".

Lower courts ruled that the law under which Mr. Gonzales acted exceeded Congress's constitutional authority.

Congress exercised its constitutional authority in carefully and deliberately renewing Section 5.

But Congress has the constitutional authority to make "regulations" affecting the court's jurisdiction.

She questioned whether he had the constitutional authority to supersede her own.

They promised that every bill would "include a clause citing the specific constitutional authority" for it.

But he rejected criticism that by delaying the provision he had exceeded his constitutional authority.