Sentence examples for constitutional theorists from inspiring English sources

All constitutional theorists will agree that constitutions typically enshrine, indeed entrench, a range of moral and political commitments to values like democracy, equality, free expression, and the rule of law.

Not all constitutional theorists believe that the sole or overriding role of a constitution is to set a stable, neutral framework for the rough and tumble of partisan law and politics.

The brilliance of Section 4 is not just that it pleases constitutional theorists by respecting Dicey's theory of parliamentary sovereignty (nice as that is).

Constitutional theorists have differing views as to whether this would be possible today; Sir Ivor Jennings wrote that a dissolution involves "the acquiescence of ministers", and as such the monarch could not dissolve Parliament without ministerial consent; "if ministers refuse to give such advice, she can do no more than dismiss them".

He is a leading conservative constitutional theorist whose rulings would draw far more attention than those of most other judges.

The Victorian constitutional theorist, Walter Bagehot had warned that letting light on to the monarchy would destroy its mystique.

(1789; What Is the Third Estate?) the constitutional theorist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès asserted that the Third Estate really was the French nation.

Walter Bagehot, the influential 19th-century constitutional theorist, famously said of Britain's monarchy: "We must not let in daylight upon magic".

political pamphleteer and constitutional theorist who claimed to have played a role in determining Union strategy during the American Civil War (1861 65).

His extraordinary career trajectory — from provincial lawyer to constitutional theorist to foreign diplomat to national executive — was possible only because he lived in extraordinary times.

The aim is to replicate the success of such places as Hong Kong, not as colonial outposts but as models of development.Mr Romer is best known for his insights about technology, not as a constitutional theorist.