Sentence examples for legitimate constitution from inspiring English sources

"One thing all Iraqis need to know, that there will be little international support of any kind whatsoever for anything that deviates from the legitimate constitution process that is in place and being worked on now".

Democracy without a legitimate constitution and a Bill of Rights, especially protecting the rights of minorities, can become a very scary thing.

For all these reasons, while there are a variety of legitimate constitutional forms, the delegation of power under any constitution is understood to be conditional.

Along with this very different view of constitutions come very different theories regarding the nature and limits of legitimate constitutional interpretation.

Liberal peoples satisfy the requirements of political liberalism: they have legitimate liberal constitutions, with governments that are under popular control and not driven by large concentration of private economic power.

"Although Bush defines righteousness in his own terms he does it in a legitimate way, within the constitution.

Relationships of mutual constitution are legitimate theoretical tools within process ontologies where entangled recursive definitions are not in conflict with basic tenets about individual entities.

By contrast, Locke argued against absolute monarchy by contending that no existing political constitution is legitimate or just unless it could be contracted into starting from a position of equal right within a (relatively peaceful) state of nature, and without violating any natural rights or duties.

However, in yet another 1958 case (Perez v. Brownell), the Supreme Court affirmed the provision revoking the citizenship of any American who had voted in an election in a foreign country, as a legitimate exercise (under the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause) of Congress' authority to regulate foreign affairs and avoid potentially embarrassing diplomatic situations.

"Those are legitimate state interests that our Constitution protects," said the lawyers, Randy M. Mastro and Howard Graff.

"The president has decided to demonise private media, even if it is a legitimate activity, regulated by the constitution," Mr Calderon says.