Sentence examples for constitutional facts from inspiring English sources

Now let me tell a second story, not one illustrating the tensions within constitutional law, but one showing the subtlety of constitutional facts.

Yet another reason is that the facts that determine whether a constitutional provision applies may be very different from facts like a person's age or the amount of the grocery bill; constitutional facts may require judges to understand the meaning that the facts may bear before the judges can figure out what to make of them.

The amendment also announces as a constitutional fact that the communist party and its associated groups were "criminal organizations".

In point of historical and constitutional fact, nothing could be further from the truth: the only amendment necessary for gun legislation, on the local or national level, is the Second Amendment itself, properly understood, as it was for two hundred years in its plain original sense.

But Roosevelt, who agreed that the debts should be paid, declined to cooperate with Hoover, writing him: "I think you will recognise that it would be unwise for me to accept joint responsibility with you when, as a matter of constitutional fact, I would be wholly lacking in any attendant authority".

In the second of the cables, he writes to Hoover, "I think you will recognize that it would be unwise for me to accept an apparent joint responsibility with you when, as a matter of constitutional fact, I would be wholly lacking in any attendant authority".

By Amy Davidson Sorkin December 27, 2017 "It would be unwise for me to accept an apparent joint responsibility with you when, as a matter of constitutional fact, I would be wholly lacking in any attendant authority," President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the departing President Herbert Hoover in a telegram from December , 1932

They require a law on the statute-book, enshrining the referendum as a constitutional fact -- and Cameron has published no such legislation for the House of Commons to vote on.

For example, the marches which have been restricted do you think that's something you could take up in Westminster?PR: Well, Westminster has responsibility for parading, that is a constitutional legal fact, so it is Westminster's responsibility to deal with it.

In order for the judiciary to fulfill that function, judges must consistently engage with the Constitution and the facts of every constitutional case rather than extending unwarranted deference to the political branches.

The Government now found itself in agreement with Hohn, saying his claim was, in fact, constitutional in nature.