Sentence examples for constitutional distinction from inspiring English sources

But Justice David H. Souter objected that such an affiliation was a "pretty empty formality," rather than a constitutional distinction.

In the decision today, Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont, No. 02-403, the majority made it clear that it had no interest in revisiting the constitutional distinction between contributions and expenditures that the court established in 1976 in the Buckley v. Valeo decision.

Under Mr. Milosevic, constitutional distinctions mattered less in a system he controlled.

The only development of any significance was the continuing slide towards monarchy, as the constitutional distinctions that had been set up by Augustus lost whatever meaning that they still had.

But under Mr. Kostunica, a constitutional lawyer, the distinctions between the narrow competency of the federal government and the broad powers of the Serbian one will have greater impact.

His domestic policies have shown a disturbing indifference to the notion of constitutional opposition, and the distinction between politics and the military.

For an example where the distinction between constitutional law and convention served as the basis of a court ruling, see the Canadian Patriation Reference, [1981] 1 S.C.R. at 870.

First, some doubt that there is a coherent way of drawing the distinction between constitutional essentials and matters of basic justice on the one hand, and matters of ordinary political legislation on the other (Greenawalt 1994, 685 86).

There is no evident legal constitutional basis for this distinction -- between obligation and gratitude, since Roberts admits that gratitude creates influence, an ordinary English synonym for obligation.

For human geneticists, there is an important distinction between constitutional and somatic mutations.

The main focus of the majority's decision was on the distinction between a constitutional amendment and a constitutional revision.