Sentence examples for constitutional elements from inspiring English sources

Practices outside the letter of the Constitution based on custom and usage are often recognized as constitutional elements; they include the system of political parties, presidential nomination procedures, and the conduct of election campaigns.

He introduced liberal and constitutional elements into the absolutist state and, by his example and influence, made participation in public life a moral postulate.

Prof Rubenstein said while the committee dealt with the "very egregious" sections that were disproportionate, the report did not deal with the constitutional elements which could see a high court challenge.

The statutory and (especially) constitutional elements of jurisdiction are an essential ingredient of separation and equilibration of powers, restraining the courts from acting at certain times, and even restraining them from acting permanently regarding certain subjects.

COCON has several built-in rules that eliminate certain constitutional elements, like cyclobutadiene, cyclopropene and peroxides.

Focal capsule disruptions appear to result from focal degenerative alterations in the constitutional elements of the epithelial capsule.

Accord, id., at 759-760, and n. 140; Nimmer § 1.06[A] ("[O]riginality is a statutory as well as a constitutional requirement"); id., § 1.08[C] ("[A] modicum of intellectual labor... clearly constitutes an essential constitutional element").

Even if you accept that the consolidated treaties have a constitutional element (and many do not), they represent both the EU's constitution and its basic governing legislation.

There was also a legal and constitutional element.

As a constitutional matter, copyright protects only those constituent elements of a work that possess more than a de minimis quantum of creativity.

The American media, said Fred M. Leventhal, emeritus professor of British history at Boston University, "does not have to worry about constitutional or financial elements".