Sentence examples for constitutional command from inspiring English sources

On the question of race, Thomas has elevated the child-rearing methods of Myers Anderson into a constitutional command.

Kennedy stressed that Catholic or not, he would uphold without reservation the constitutional command that there be a separation of church and state.

In any event, he added, the court is not entitled to ignore even an unwise constitutional command for reasons of convenience.

For decades, various branches of the conservative movement have called for a reduction in the size of the federal government, but for the Tea Party, and for Thomas, small government is a constitutional command.

The question of when the executive branch may disavow laws enacted by Congress is a thorny one, particularly in light of the constitutional command that the president "take care that the laws be faithfully executed".

In arguing the Michigan cases before the Supreme Court, lawyers for the plaintiffs insisted that the use of race as a factor in determining student admissions is "impermissible because of the constitutional command of equality".

There is nothing anomalous about constitutional commands that abut.

This is not to say that we should disobey all constitutional commands.

In 1994, Justice Blackmun came around to the view that "guided discretion" amounted to "irreconcilable constitutional commands".

The people have seemed to feel that the Supreme Court, whatever its defects, is still the most detached, dispassionate and trustworthy custodian that our system affords for the translation of abstract into concrete constitutional commands".

"As a matter of supremacy," she said, "the Tennessee statutes must be construed to comply with Obergefell's constitutional commands".