Sentence examples for constitutionality from inspiring English sources

There is no doubt about the constitutionality here the government is clearly allowed to levy taxes to fund public benefits.

Since the ACA was signed into law in 2010, it has miraculously managed to withstand "Hitler death panel" comparisons, state by state efforts to block its implementation, a US supreme court challenge to its constitutionality and, most recently, a defunding effort that led to the federal government shutdown.

Kennedy was a little more critical of those who are challenging the constitutionality of the law than his fellow Republican appointees, so it is hard to say which way he's leaning.

But the solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, was not at the top of his game in arguing for its constitutionality, and stumbled over some questions, while Paul Clement, his foe Republican super-lawyer, delivered the Greatest Oration of All Time.

It's just a tax or a penalty; the word "mandate" is, if anything, poor politics on the Obama administration's part, but not a difference-maker in terms of constitutionality.

But solicitor general Donald Verrilli was not at the top of his game in arguing for its constitutionality, and stumbled over some questions, while Paul Clement, his foe Republican super-lawyer, delivered the Greatest Oration of All Time.

A FOUR-YEAR battle ended yesterday, when Singapore's highest court upheld the constitutionality of Section 377(a) of the country's penal code, which renders any man convicted of committing "or abet[ting] the commission of...any act of gross indecency" with another man liable to two years in prison.

The case, Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, does not concern the constitutionality of affirmative-action programmes themselves: the court banned quotas but upheld the use of race as an admissions "plus factor" in Regents v Bakke in 1978, in Grutter v Michigan in 2003 and again, just barely, in last spring's Fisher v University of Texas.

In 2000, for example, he voted to re-affirm the Miranda ruling of 1966 (obliging police to remind criminal suspects of their rights when arresting them), although he had earlier expressed doubts about its constitutionality.

The court's role, the ruling said, was to be "independent, neutral and objective", though in the early, throat-clearing section of this ruling, the court noted that it grants the government a "presumption of constitutionality", because "our legislature is presumed not to enact legislation which is inconsistent with the Singapore Constitution".

So said Richard Leon, a federal judge hearing a challenge to their constitutionality.