Sentence examples for constitutional based from inspiring English sources

For example, the US supreme court ruled in 1976 that restrictive hair regulations for police officers were constitutional, based on a police department's "desire for the esprit de corps which such similarity is felt to inculcate within the police force itself".

Their collective view is that, whatever you think of the policy behind the law, it's clearly constitutional based on existing precedent because it substantially affects commerce under the Commerce and "Necessary and Proper" Clauses of the Constitution.

As a Congressional Research Service CRSS) report from 1987 put it, "[i]n support of a variety of actions since 1981 designed to ensure ultimate presidential control of decisionmaking in all executive branch agencies, the Reagan administration has articulated a constitutional based theory of a unitary executive".

He soon undermined the traditional aristocratic power structure of the government and broadened its constitutional base.

Critics of the court object to what they say is the legal authority it would have without an acceptable constitutional base.

The Royal Swedish Academy awarded Buchanan the Nobel Prize in economics "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making".

Over time, our cases recognized two constitutional bases for the requirement that a confession be voluntary to be admitted into evidence: the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

And if those in the tech industry are to be expected to produce them, they must trust that they will be used responsibly in the national interest, with clear and constitutional bases for their use.

In the case of Mexico-US constellation, the current controversies are mostly at the policy-level, while the citizenship regimes have firm constitutional bases in both countries, hence they are unlikely to change soon.

Brownlee's opposition stemmed in part from investigations that Greenfield's government had already undertaken into the subject: information was gathered from similar experiments in New Zealand and New South Wales, leading to the conclusion that, while there would be some benefit to a provincially owned bank, Alberta "had neither the economic nor constitutional base to consider such a scheme".

Marshall appealed, but the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the decision in a judgment which stated that the Constitution of Indiana could not be replaced in total without a constitutional convention, based on the precedent set by Indiana's first two constitutions.