Sentence examples for constitutional imperfections from inspiring English sources
"Now, days after the event, all the constitutional imperfections are surfacing," he said.
Jeremy Bailey's James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection is a wide-ranging and often surprising exploration of several untreated aspects of Madison's thought, including his alliance with Thomas Jefferson and what Bailey sees as his use of public opinion to complete the constitutional project.
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
The relevant question, however, is whether we do more good than harm by seeking to correct this imperfection through expansion of our constitutional mandate in a manner ungoverned by any discernible rule.
To assert that the first steps of a policy make it immutable is to assert that imperfections and errors in legislation become constitutional rights.
Higher Lawmaking, in Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment (ed. Sanford Levinson), pp. 63-87 (Princeton University Press, 1995).
Our role is much more limited, as is our holding: Despite the imperfections of the current school funding regime, it meets minimum constitutional requirements.
Although, for the reasons indicated, the Washington statute and the quoted instructions raise a serious and substantial question whether a proper constitutional standard was applied by the jury, we need not rely on the imperfections in the instructions as a separate ground of reversal.
