Sentence examples for constitutional imperative from inspiring English sources

It is also a constitutional imperative.

This is not just overdue, but is now a political and constitutional imperative.

Now we do so in the belief that it is a constitutional imperative as well.

With the 1994 election and the creation of a constitutional state, trade unions were legalised, the military ethos was abandoned and "affirmative action became a constitutional imperative as the country sought to transform its workforce".

As the drums of national retreat sound across Europe (and the UK takes over as chair of the Council of Europe), noticing the human person seems more like the pressing constitutional imperative of our age.

He said, "A patent system developed for a 1952 economy — before the Internet, before cellphones, before computers, before photocopiers, even before the I.B.M. Selectric typewriter — needs to be reconsidered in light of 21st-century realities, while staying true to the consistent constitutional imperative of encouraging innovation and invention".

If the debt ceiling is not raised, he will have to violate one of these constitutional imperatives.

As for that supposed "class war," the last time anyone looked, the poor were governed by the same constitutional imperatives as the rich.

"They rise, too, from a better informed understanding of how constitutional imperatives define a liberty that remains urgent in our own era".

Justice Scalia, in his dissenting opinion, said the majority "displays not only an improper special solicitude for our own profession" but also "the very fondness for 'reform through the courts' -- the making of innumerable social judgments through judge-pronounced constitutional imperatives -- that prompted Congress to restrict publicly funded litigation of this sort".

Policy makers had recognized a constitutional (and economic) imperative to protect American property from theft, to shield consumers from counterfeit products and fraud, and to combat foreign criminals who exploit technology to steal American ingenuity and jobs.