Sentence examples for constitutional compromise from inspiring English sources

This was an ingenious constitutional compromise by the drafters of the HRA.

He was ahead of his time in opposing slavery and in rejecting the constitutional compromise that perpetuated it.

"The constitutional compromise about slavery, for instance, facilitated the achievement of what both sides of the debate really aspired to — a new nation," he wrote.

To preserve their constitutional compromise, they turned a blind eye to the king's manifest treason by inventing the fiction that he had been kidnapped.

Ukraine is still trapped in the constitutional compromise agreed to by the outgoing president, Viktor Yushchenko, which divides executive power between the president and a prime minister chosen by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).

Ira Shapiro, a Washington lawyer and a former aide to Senator Gaylord Nelson, of Wisconsin, put it this way: "Why would they want to have lunch together when they hate each other?" The upper chamber of Congress was a constitutional compromise between popular sovereignty and state sovereignty.

America's outlandish method of picking Presidents is the product of haphazard historical accretions, two-hundred-plus-year-old constitutional compromises, ever-shifting political improvisations, shortsighted partisan schemings, and interstate jostlings for influence.

This power isn't always visible in the day-to-day: Our constitutional system requires compromise to grease the wheels of policymaking, unbending politicians are usually unsuccessful ones, and gridlock rules when lawmakers can't muddle their principles a little.

If abused, these provisions meant to be used only in cases of rebellion or other severe disturbance against the constitutional order may seriously compromise the constitutionally enshrined principle of shared sovereignty that is the hallmark of federalism.

The most important, the Crittenden Compromise, included constitutional amendments guaranteeing slavery forever in the states where it already existed and dividing the territories between slavery and freedom.

Buckingham Palace is absolutely paranoid about the Queen becoming embroiled in any sort of constitutional controversy that would compromise her role as the impartial head of state.