The phrase "constitutional state" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a nation that has a written document (such as a constitution) that outlines their laws and rights. For example, "The United States is a constitutional state, with the Constitution outlining citizens' rights and responsibilities."
True, a constitution exists, but Iraq isn't a constitutional state; Parliament passes legislation, but the rule of law is selective; elections are merely a game to divide the spoils between corrupt elites; and the government gets massive profits from oil exports, but fails to provide basic services, while nearly a quarter of Iraqis live in poverty.
In 1838 the king asked him to become an adviser, and he thereafter spent his time urging the improvement of the political system, helping to transform Hawaii into a modern constitutional state, with a bill of rights (1839) and a constitution (1840).
The strength of the amnesty deal was that it was part of a package of initiatives contained in the interim constitution that set the country on the road to becoming a democratic, constitutional state.
He said it should be a constitutional state.
"We have to clarify whether our constitutional state is sufficient for confronting the new threats".
Do we live in an constitutional state or do we live in a surveillance state?
Understood in this way, all states have constitutions and all states are constitutional states.
Modern constitutional states often retain two chambers even though bicameralism has declined.
Throughout Europe and in the Western Hemisphere, liberalism inspired nationalistic aspirations to the creation of unified, independent, constitutional states with their own parliaments and the rule of law.
No English ministry was doing its duty, he declared, if inattentive to the interests of constitutional states, which were Britain's natural allies.
A Europe that maintains the integrity of existing democratic, constitutional states against the threat of divisive ethnic demands, which are invariably retrograde and xenophobic.
