Sentence examples for establishing the constitutionality from inspiring English sources

The power to tax was interpreted by the post-New Deal Supreme Court as establishing the constitutionality of entitlement programs like Social Security.

Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, said he looked forward to "establishing the constitutionality of this simple and common-sense law" at trial.

Respondent argues that that historical practice effectively establishes the constitutionality of retroactive extensions of unexpired copyrights.

The burden is not on the state to establish the constitutionality of its laws, nor are we limited in supporting their constitutionality to the reasons assigned by the state court.

That case established the constitutionality of the Utah statute, so far as it permitted the condemnation of land for the irrigation of other land belonging to a private person, in pursuance of the declared policy of the state.

By 1912, construction was interrupted by litigation challenging both the constitutionality of the law establishing the road building corporation and the need for DuPont to acquire such a large right-of-way.

While I testified before Congress and state legislatures about research establishing the unique violence and severity of hate crime and wrote Supreme Court briefs on their constitutionality (which was unimously approved), I will do something different here.

While reading aloud the landmark Marbury v. Madison decision in 1803, which established the Supreme Court as the arbiter of the constitutionality of legislation, Professor Feldman noticed similar philosophical questions that he had encountered in ancient Islamic texts.

Baker v. Carr 1962 Held that state legislative apportionment was justiciable in federal courts and effectively established the principle of "one person, one vote" for assessing the constitutionality of state apportionment plans.

In its ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which established the board and sought to reform corporate America after the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals.

And they didn't have a great deal of power until the Marbury v. Madison decision in 1803 established the concept of judicial review, giving judges the power to rule on the constitutionality of laws and government action.