Sentence examples for constitutionally enacted from inspiring English sources

Had such strong-arm tactics worked, it would have meant that constitutionally enacted laws could be nullified if determined minorities opposed them.

It is the province of the judiciary to enforce laws constitutionally enacted, not to make them to suit their own views of propriety or justice.

As we have emphasized throughout these appeals, we cannot set aside executive decisions to detain enemy combatants "without the clear conviction that they are in conflict with the Constitution or laws of Congress constitutionally enacted".

The thin conception, often associated with the legal scholars Albert Venn Dicey and Joseph Raz, advocates the view that the rule of law is fulfilled by adhering to formal procedures and requirements, such as the stipulations that all laws be prospective, clear, stable and constitutionally enacted, and that the parties to legal disputes are treated equally and without bias on the part of judges.

There are also many reasons why Congress may not innovate and why Congress may not have enacted every constitutionally permissible means of regulation.

This Article argues that courts can, and often should, implement constitutional guarantees by crafting doctrines that raise the costs to government decisionmakers of enacting constitutionally problematic policies.

He spends a lot of time outside the country; at one point last year, the cabinet found itself constitutionally unable to enact new laws because he had been away for several months.

Without being asked to do so, and in violation of the Court's own rules against deciding "significant constitutional issues not contained in the questions presented, briefed, or argued," the Justices declared that the public sector unions were constitutionally prohibited from enacting such a dues increase on non-members unless those workers affirmatively opt in.

472, 476-477, 84 L.Ed. 716, a trial according to the 'law of the land,' including all constitutional guarantees, both explicit and necessarily implied from explicit language, and all valid laws enacted pursuant to constitutionally granted powers.

Republicans insisted, however, that a balanced budget could be enacted by the constitutionally mandated deadline of midnight on Monday evening, which would avert a partial shutdown of government services.

Reapportionment is effected periodically by statutory provisions, 6 enacted in compliance with the constitutionally established formulas.