Sentence examples for constitutional ground for from inspiring English sources

In this year's Tanner Lectures, Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post suggested common constitutional ground for both sides in the campaign finance reform debate.

The case, originally brought in New Jersey courts by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, contended that Mr. Obama could not be considered a "natural-born citizen" — a constitutional ground for becoming president of the United States — contending that he had dual nationality at birth.

However, Section 2's reference to "rebellion and other crimes" has been invoked as a constitutional ground for felony disenfranchisement.

Indeed, Quebec had constitutional grounds for thinking it might do so, claiming that cultural affairs were educational and therefore a provincial matter.

Nor would motorists have constitutional grounds for complaint should police with dogs, stationed at long traffic lights, circle cars waiting for the red signal to turn green.

"Ordinances laying down general policies without regard to a specific piece of property are usually an exercise of legislative authority, are subject to limited review, and may only be attacked upon constitutional grounds for an arbitrary abuse of authority.

Prof. Rick Hills of the University of Michigan Law School points to a bigger hurdle: a lack of constitutional grounding for theories that try to establish equal protection on the basis of conduct or behavior.

Even if Whitaker's appointment ever survived a court challenge on constitutional grounds for most of his day-to-day duties at the Justice Department, the fact that he'll now be performing the sensitive work of supervising Robert S. Mueller III's investigation raises other deep problems.

Hussein Haeri, partner and head of Withers' public international law team, said: 'We are confident that there are constitutional grounds for challenging the imposition of a public register of the beneficial ownership of companies and human rights issues raised by public access to the register.

States would have constitutional grounds for resisting - the same grounds that allowed southern states to argue in favor of preserving slavery.

In August 2014, Kenya's Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs cited constitutional grounds for shutting down a bill that would have made same-sex relations punishable with life imprisonment for Kenyan citizens, or public stoning for foreigners.