Sentence examples for constitutional norms from inspiring English sources

Although he presided over the creation of a new constitution, he disregarded constitutional norms and ruled as a dictator.

On the one hand, the EU system must be compatible with the basic constitutional norms and principles shared by the constitutions of the member states.

It is wrong, therefore, to regard a constitution as nothing more than the set of all particular constitutional norms, and to assume that all these norms are equally subject to constitutional amendment.

Do Trump's military appointments threaten basic constitutional norms?

He's said little that suggests he'd hew to constitutional norms.

This defiance of congressional and constitutional norms is outrageous, and it's also revealing.

By precedent and constitutional norms, this should have been a treaty submitted to the Senate.

Clear popular consensus can establish constitutional norms, with or without the courts.

Petitioner was convicted in strict accordance with then-applicable constitutional norms.

Its high-handedness, its flash of menace, its disregard for constitutional norms — all this now has a familiar ring.

But since his election as president in 1998, he has broadly respected constitutional norms -- as Sunday's vote itself made clear.