Sentence examples for constitutional machinery from inspiring English sources
Calling secession a rebellion enabled the government to put into motion the constitutional machinery of war to "suppress Insurrections," according to the Constitution's Article I, Section 8. Article I, Section 9 allowed the suspension of habeas corpus "in Cases of Rebellion".
The country is testing Constitutional machinery that has rarely been used -- and may not function as smoothly as the founders anticipated".
But there is also, for those who form the moving parts of our constitutional machinery, a question of the duty one has—and to what, and to whom.
Historians may remember this postelection struggle as a great test of constitutional machinery, but in the moment, in the day-to-day thrust and parry, it is all exceedingly personal.
A defeated, failed prime minister gummed up the constitutional machinery of the nation as best he could for most of a day, while he attended to who knows what.
(Paul Ryan and a lot of his colleagues have failed this test). But there is also, for those who form the moving parts of our constitutional machinery, a question of the duty one has—and to what, and to whom.
Before reviving a dubious constitutional experiment or tinkering with the machinery of justice, Congress should give the Justice Department's prosecutors a chance.
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
As the size and scope of Britain's government machinery grew, the lack of explicit constitutional or legal constraints on public officials provoked a judicial reaction.
Second, although Gross thought there had been substantial erosion in constitutional democracy, he believed the legislative and judicial machinery of representative government plus civil society and unions still provided a bulwark against fascist tendencies.
The Supreme Court's decision in J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro underscores Section 3114's constitutional problems, which were plain in 1977 when Delaware adopted it in the wake of Shaffer v. Heitner.
