Sentence examples for constitutional precept from inspiring English sources
When a deeply divided commission approved last year the rules that the court struck down in March, Mr. Powell said that the majority had improperly invoked states' rights in a "trivial misuse of a cherished constitutional precept".
The Constitutional precept is the first legal ground for impeachment proceedings against Thomas.
It concerns whether Missouri, on the basis of the constitutional precept of separation of church and state, can exclude a Lutheran church that operates a daycare center from a state program that awards grants for resurfacing playgrounds.
The interim constitution that was drawn up last year, deeply influenced by American constitutional precepts, contains a web of checks and balances designed to force alliances across ethnic and religious lines, including a provision that effectively requires a two-thirds majority in the assembly to name a prime minister and cabinet.
But violating constitutional precepts?
It found that Cleveland officers "violate basic constitutional precepts in their use of deadly and less lethal force at a rate that is highly significant".
Álvarez, the state-security spokesman, said, "Even though she acted within Law 701, she went against the constitutional precepts that protect human rights".
The margin for reversal is narrow, and I rest assured that sound constitutional precepts will survive the result the Court reaches today.
As for the constitutional precepts that might influence the future of the union, the uneasy truth is that this still-evolving patchwork of relationships justifies forecasts of both survival and fragmentation.
The financial crises drew into doubt many financial ideals that Germans had long held, while fundamental constitutional precepts were threatened by new security measures and by the political battle over Stuttgart 21, a controversial building project.
Professor Alfieri presents a raceconscious, community-oriented model of prosecutorial discretion guided by constitutional precepts, citizenship ideals, professionalism values, racial traditions, and moral customs.
