Sentence examples for constitutional foundation from inspiring English sources

The Liberian flag is an ersatz version of the USA's Stars and Stripes, a nod to the country's constitutional foundation by freed American slaves.

The military-installed interim government has no constitutional foundation, said Justice Tony Gates, adding that Parliament should be recalled to discuss the future.

"The constitutional foundation for Congress's action is considerably stronger" for the health care law than for the law that the Supreme Court endorsed in 1942, the administration said in a recent brief.

His understanding of secession as an illegitimate act of individual treason persisted throughout the war and served as the constitutional foundation for his conservative approach to Reconstruction when he assumed the presidency in 1865.

He said he decided to enter the case after concluding that acceptance of the gay rights arguments by the court might provide a constitutional foundation for same-sex marriage.

Given his statements over more than 25 years about Miranda's lack of constitutional foundation, there was the distinct possibility that he was about to announce that Miranda had been overruled.

And it stands on the same constitutional foundations that were laid during the era.

Although its constitutional foundations are not rock-solid, every effort was made to embed them in strong parliamentary foundations.

I do concede, however, that the case for a right to bear arms in America has pretty solid constitutional foundations.

Since Iran owed its constitutional foundations to these societies, was not the idea of secularism worth considering?

What will be the point now of establishing such a body when its constitutional foundations have been undermined?