Sentence examples for from its constitution from inspiring English sources

The exception in the 13th Amendment, known as the punishment clause, still stands nationwide; Dickerson said to his knowledge, Colorado is one of the first states — if not the first — to try to remove it from its constitution.

The BNP faces further legal action from the Equality and Human Rights Commission over allegations that it has failed to remove potentially racist clauses from its constitution.

The British National party faces the prospect of renewed legal action from the government's equalities watchdog over allegations that it has failed to remove potentially racist clauses from its constitution.

And this year, as he predicted, the Hungarian government has struck the clause from its constitution disenfranchising those under guardianship.

However, he joined the Labour party in 1995 after Tony Blair removed clause 4 – a broad commitment to socialism – from its constitution.

Ireland will hold a referendum in October to remove the offence of blasphemy from its constitution, Charlie Flanagan, the justice and equality minister, has said.

And to say that the Legislature of the state is unmoored from its own Constitution and it can't use its courts and it can't use its executive agency -- even you, your side, concedes it can use a state agent -- seems to me a holding which has grave implications for our republican theory of government.

It dropped the word "communism" from its party constitution in April, setting the new goal of building "democratic humane socialism". It now favors market-oriented economic reforms.

These two characters, conceived 70 years apart, seem to imply that, in the American Century, the true power of the country stemmed less from its army, its constitution, and its technology than from the siren-song allure of its dream world on the screen.

Canada also is a federal state, despite the fact that some of the formal features of ideal federalism are absent from its 1982 constitution: the provinces' powers, not the central government's, are enumerated.

It is also unnecessary for us to decide whether, under the Supremacy Clause, [n18] a state interest, derived from its own constitution, could ever outweigh free [p276] speech interests protected by the First Amendment.