Sentence examples for constitutional entity from inspiring English sources
A more far-reaching effect of the 1879 constitution was to recognize the University as a constitutional entity and to confer upon the Board of Regents status as a constitutional corporation.
Rather he had a sense of the state as a constitutional entity which must be preserved at all costs.
However, devolution has to deliver, and the UK government must play its part, if we are to remain a constitutional entity.
Although the 1920 Government of Ireland Act envisaged separate parliaments exercising jurisdiction over southern and northern Ireland, the architects of the partition anticipated that the new constitutional entity to be known as Northern Ireland would prove too small to be viable and would be rapidly absorbed into a united Ireland.
"As a constitutional entity, Wales has found itself trailing behind the other nations of these islands, often having to settle for well below 'the going rate' for powers over its own affairs.
As a constitutional entity, the Commission could only be abolished by an amendment ratified by popular vote.
It must be obligatory for the governments of the constitutional entities to participate in the meetings of the Council when issues are being dealt with which affect their exclusive competences, as in the case of taxation in the Basque Country.
At the same time our Supreme Court says corporate campaign finance is constitutional, Wall Street entities like Goldman Sachs were engaging in fraud, and the average American voter began calling for reform.
Further, while the People's Rights Amendment would prohibit courts from striking down laws based solely on the purported constitutional rights of artificial entities (as the Court did in Citizens United), it would not prohibit corporations and other entities from asserting the constitutional rights of natural persons, provided that they can demonstrate standing to do so.
Voters also approved a constitutional amendment barring public entities from considering race, gender and ethnicity when hiring workers or granting scholarships.
Central to this approach is the recognition that mechanisms other than directly subjecting private entities to constitutional scrutiny can satisfy the demands of constitutional accountability, and can do so without intruding unduly on government regulatory prerogatives.
