Sentence examples for constitutional justification from inspiring English sources

Personhood opens a new front in the battle; it attacks Roe's constitutional justification head on.

Laws like Proposition 8, they argue, do nothing to promote stability in heterosexual marriages and, besides, have no constitutional justification.

The principal constitutional justification for the individual mandate is the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the right to regulate commerce among the states.

As conservatives see it, liberal judges have repeatedly subverted the rule of law in recent decades by overruling elected lawmakers with scant constitutional justification.

Drafting a bill, however, will require conservatives to resolve a fundamental disagreement: how to find constitutional justification for a nationwide ban despite their reservations about giving the government broad regulatory powers.

More recently, in a dissenting opinion, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by three other Justices, offered still another constitutional justification for a woman's right to choose, under a different part of the Fourteenth Amendment: the equal-protection clause.

The majority of Democrats, polls suggest, have followed roughly the same path as the former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh, a staunch critic of Bush's wartime policies who now serves as a legal adviser to the State Department, supplying constitutional justifications for Obama's drone campaigns.

Continuing, "But, just as you don't have an individual right to by an F-15, if you're a billionaire, with ordinance on it, just like you don't have the right to buy an M1 tank, just like you don't have the right to buy an automatic weapon, those judgements have been made that there are no reasonable societal justifications or constitutional justifications for owning them".

"Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification," Mr. Brown said in a statement.

Each overturned the judgments of the democratic process without any clear and compelling justification in constitutional text, history, theory, or precedent.

Writing for himself and another judge on the panel, Judge Guido Calabresi claimed that a "simple preference for dentists over teeth-whiteners" would be a sufficiently "rational" justification for constitutional purposes, even if the challenged rule did nothing to -- and was not designed to -- protect public health.