Sentence examples for essential constitutional from inspiring English sources

Still, over all, the measure taking shape in the Senate committee is far too weak to restore essential constitutional checks and balances.

Writing for herself, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen G. Breyer, Justice O'Connor said, "These essential constitutional promises may not be eroded".

The proposed ban on access to royal documents is designed "to ensure that our information access arrangements allow essential constitutional relationships and conventions to be preserved".

Ten years have passed since the country last tried to meet the essential, constitutional and all-but-impossible mandate to count everybody; the whole lot of us.

The Rights of Humans and the Rights of God So in contemporary Islamic politics, the call for Shariah does not only or primarily mean mandating the veiling of women or the use of corporal punishment — it has an essential constitutional dimension as well.

In an ironically parallel move, the same Republican moralists who condemn the poor, or their politicians, for not enforcing social norms were accused all week of betraying an essential constitutional norm themselves in this case, that you don't effectively tell the nation's enemies to ignore its twice-elected leader.

Not only does the effort hurt the economy and undermine the quality of government service, but the GOP's hostility towards interbranch accommodation positions the President so that he (or his successors) will be more likely to respond with initiatives that can only further corrode an institutional culture of self-restraint that is essential to constitutional government.

Entrenchment may be an essential element of constitutional regimes, but it is far from clear that constitutions can be entrenched against the actions of a sovereign people.

Hence Republicans believed it was essential to have constitutional protection for the national debt.

Prof. Stone put this well: "The essential nature of constitutional rights is that they protect fundamental personal liberties even though others do not want to recognize them".

"Must a government, of necessity," he asked, "be too strong for the liberties of its own people or too weak to maintain its own existence?" As Lincoln understood, the most essential feature of constitutional leadership is self-restraint.