Sentence examples for constitutional fabric from inspiring English sources

"The gradual erosion of this basic liberty can only tatter the constitutional fabric upon which this nation was built," the opinion said.

Congress has rushed to pass profoundly dangerous changes to the constitutional fabric — the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, recent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — without real deliberation.

Biden, who stood at Obama's side when he announced Garland's nomination at the White House, also launched the administration's most pointed criticism yet of the Republicans' delaying tactics, arguing that it posed a threat to the constitutional fabric of America itself.

He felt that the enemies of Allende were trying to press a confrontation to the point where the constitutional fabric would be broken.

At the last election, the Lib Dems seemed to believe they could only ever be an essential element in any new government; they thought they had sewn themselves right back into the constitutional fabric of British society.

So Mr Obama's suggestion that the ACA has achieved locked-in, quasi-constitutional, "fabric of America" status is more an expression of hope than fact.

Once again, I urge everyone to read the (Republican-appointed) Justice John Paul Stevens's great and bewildered dissent on the ruling, which inserted an individual right to gun ownership into the fabric of constitutional law.

Both options stretch the fabric of constitutional democracy and carry a tremendous social and economic cost.

Nearly 90 years ago, five state Assemblymen were expelled by their colleagues and removed from office, accused of being Socialists who sought to "overturn the whole fabric of a constitutional form of government" through a litany of subversive acts — everything from eliminating the right to own property to weakening the family and the church.

"If they get two to four appointments on the Supreme Court," he said, "I think Roe v. Wade will be repealed and a lot of other things that have been a part of the fabric of our constitutional life will be gone".

Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.