"constitutional scope" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the limits and boundaries set by a country's constitution, particularly in terms of laws and political authority. It can be used when discussing the powers and responsibilities of government officials, the rights and freedoms of citizens, and the overall framework of a country's legal system. Example: The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban on same-sex marriage was met with controversy, as many argued that it exceeded the court's constitutional scope and infringed upon the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
Until 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States had never seriously considered the constitutional scope of the Second Amendment.
"In particular, it alleges that several individuals with impeccable conservative credentials, including Jack Goldsmith and Patrick Philbin, were concerned that some were stretching Executive power beyond its proper constitutional scope.
In The Trade-Mark Cases, the Court addressed the constitutional scope of "writings". For a particular work to be classified "under the head of writings of authors," the Court determined, "originality is required". 100 U. S., at 94.
Meanwhile, in United States v. Miller (1939), in a prosecution under the National Firearms Act (1934), the Supreme Court avoided addressing the constitutional scope of the Second Amendment by merely holding that the "possession or use of a shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" was not "any part of the ordinary military equipment" protected by the Second Amendment.
With this case and the court's earlier Citizens United decision on corporate speech and political campaign contributions, this could be one of the most important terms in years for defining the constitutional scope of freedom of expression — for better or for worse.
"The Committee's request," Mnuchin said, "raises serious issues concerning the constitutional scope of congressional investigative authority, the legitimacy of the asserted legislative purpose, and the constitutional rights of American citizens". This from an administration that cares very little about rights for a lot of other people.
This article suggests that the use of evidence-based guidelines in Swedish healthcare should be seen in the light of Sweden's constitutional setting, with several autonomous levels of political authority negotiating the scope for their decision-making power.
This quick review of the origins, scope, constitutional basis, and vulnerability of the principle of academic freedom provides us with a helpful framework for approaching at least some of our contemporary issues.
A number of objective markers are available to confine the scope of constitutional review here.
The people of Georgia, by ratifying that constitutional text, ratified the scope of Paragraph XVI as Day explained it….
At that point, the relevance to the constitutional question of the scope of immunity afforded by the state court's interpretation of state law ended.
