Sentence examples for inherent constitutional from inspiring English sources

"Congress has an inherent constitutional responsibility to do oversight.

That decision, rejecting the argument that President Harry S. Truman had inherent constitutional authority to seize private steel mills, is known as Youngstown.

While earlier Presidents have, as you say, suspended ordinary laws, he suggests that earlier Presidents did not assert that this was their inherent constitutional right.

And it has also maintained that the president had the inherent constitutional authority to intercept the communications of foreign powers and their agents - regardless of whether Congress prohibited it.

Rather, the decision correctly found that the president possesses no inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to detain as enemy combatants American citizens seized on American soil, away from the zone of combat.

The president possessed no inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to detain as enemy combatants American citizens captured on American soil, the court said in a 2-to-1 ruling.

Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.

Pasley concludes: "Governing on the basis of inherent powers rather than clear legal-constitutional authority is a distinctly undemocratic, illiberal, and un-American approach to governance.

Pasley implicitly agrees, in part: Like Hamilton and his allies, he writes, Abraham Lincoln argued for an "ante-constitutional notion of the inherent powers of government in justifying his decision to restore the Union by force.… Like Bush and Hamilton, Lincoln invoked the Constitution but based his position largely on concepts not mentioned in it".

Nonetheless, while international human rights law can increase the normative pool judges may resort to in interpreting the Constitution, there are "inherent limits" such as the express wording of the constitutional text and constitutional history that "[militates] against the incorporation of those international norms".

Justice Breyer's opinion gave more weight than did the majority opinion to the constitutional value inherent in protecting the privacy of personal communications.