Sentence examples for constitutional entitlement from inspiring English sources

At least standing athwart it as a constitutional entitlement.

He added that there was "no constitutional entitlement to see the whites of the eyes of one's intended audience".

The Samurai Shopper respects our constitutional entitlement to life, liberty and the pursuit of voluptuously stacked hamburgers, but those entitlements weigh heavily on us.

Perhaps how bold was reflected in the intensity of Justice Antonin Scalia's scathing dissent, which excoriated the court for elevating the "necessary evil" of plea bargains into "a constitutional entitlement".

In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the majority for opening "a whole new field of constitutionalized criminal procedure: plea-bargaining law," by raising bargaining from "a necessary evil to a constitutional entitlement".

Without a statutory basis for jurisdiction, the government's argument continues, there is no jurisdiction because as "aliens with no connection to this country who were captured abroad in the course of an ongoing military conflict," the detainees can claim no constitutional entitlement to habeas corpus.

In the exercise of its constitutional entitlements, the government of Iraq can use force internally to defeat an armed movement that has imposed itself forcibly upon a significant part of its territory.

Constitutional entitlements are fine and dandy as long as they don't include a woman's constitutional right to terminate an unwanted, or potentially lethal pregnancy.

Pardons don't erase a criminal record, but they do restore some of a convicted felon's constitutional entitlements including, under certain conditions, the right to posses firearms.

The proper bounds of the exercise of personal autonomy and the proper restrictions of the entitlement to privacy are constitutional matters, not things to be decided by popular vote.

Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.