Sentence examples for constitutional objectives from inspiring English sources

These clauses highlight the Constitutional objectives of building an egalitarian social order and establishing a welfare state, by bringing about a social revolution assisted by the State, and have been used to support the nationalisation of mineral resources as well as public utilities.

"Do you think that's a valid constitutional objective, to level the playing field?" Justice Scalia asked.

His ruling cites Stephen Breyer, a member of America's Supreme Court, who argued in a dissenting opinion in 2006 that "sometimes too much patent protection can impede rather than 'promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,' the constitutional objective of patent and copyright protection".However, the majority of the Supreme Court did not agree with Justice Breyer.

The guiding principle here, as in all Fourth Amendment contexts, is the constitutional command of objective reasonableness.

The Democratic Party had long rejected federal appropriations for internal improvements, but Davis felt that such a project could be justified as a Constitutional national security objective.

The rational principles in our law can only be given effect by the federal judiciary by means of objective constitutional interpretation.

A coalition of civil rights organizations signed a letter of protest criticizing the proposed rules and raising numerous constitutional, practical and ethical objectives.

From the time that Franklin Roosevelt's appointees came to form a majority on the Supreme Court until the appointees of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan came to predominate, liberal constitutional thinking had two major objectives — both of which it largely achieved.

Hand instead sought objective standards in constitutional law, most famously in obscenity and civil liberties cases.

Until this time, due to the fiscal imbalance between the Commonwealth and the States and Territories, the Commonwealth Government used Specific Purpose Payments (SPPs) to fund policy and program objectives that were the constitutional responsibility of the State and Territory Governments (Allen Consulting Group, 2006).

Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.