Sentence examples for constitutional idea from inspiring English sources
His constitutional idea appears to require that elected bodies be split evenly between men and women.
David (slick, glib, televisual) Cameron's Big Constitutional Idea is to trot out the bunkum that Blair used 12 years ago, of "returning power to the people".
To Mr. O'Reilly, on his interview with The New York Times in which he said that Newt Gingrich was "zany": "His comments about the justices and the Congress, sending the Capitol Police to bring in judges - that's not exactly a practical idea or a constitutional idea.
Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justice Breyer as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read the first amendment as a guarantee of "religious equality...the breathtakingly generous constitutional idea that our public institutions belong no less to the Buddhist or Hindu than to the Methodist or Episcopalian".
Mr Nolte calls it "the prime example of the migration of constitutional ideas".
The Cherokees adapted European constitutional ideas and mastered the federal legal system in a futile effort to avoid removal.
This work attempted to work out the principles of the French Revolution and depicted an ideal liberal state, based on English constitutional ideas and practice.
The postwar provisional president Charles de Gaulle resigned in 1946, expecting that public support would bring him back to power with a mandate to impose his constitutional ideas.
In January 1946 de Gaulle suddenly resigned his post as provisional president, apparently expecting that a wave of public support would bring him back to power with a mandate to impose his constitutional ideas.
The mega-amendment is a toxic waste dump of bad constitutional ideas, many of which were introduced before and nullified by the Constitutional Court or changed at the insistence of European bodies.
In assembling their case, the lawyers invoked early constitutional ideas, including the Federalist papers, in which Alexander Hamilton argued that there should be few limits on governmental power when national security was at stake.
