Sentence examples for lost constitution from inspiring English sources

And in 1890 a papyrus was discovered in Egypt that contained most of the otherwise lost Constitution of Athens.

Randy Barnett, a Georgetown law professor, made a countercase based on what he calls "the lost Constitution," an interpretation that would limit much of that basic law, including the commerce clause.

Barnett's publications include more than 100 articles and reviews, as well as nine books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, Constitutional Law: Cases in Context, Contracts: Cases and Doctrine and The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law.

When Jefferson lost, the Constitution mandated he become vice president, despite the fact that Adams had his own running mate, Thomas Pickney.

This era, the pamphlet claims, was now past and lost; the constitution of the gentleman has deteriorated.

Many blue states will lose them.The constitution requires fair representation in Congress.

The assembly had been scheduled to begin in January, but three months were lost in the constitution's redrafting.

One Republican assemblywoman, Nancy Calhoun of Orange County, said that if the marriage bill passed, it would be "a day when the state of New York and its constitution lost something".

It's easy to get lost in the Constitution and forget that we're talking about children being bombarded by propaganda so clever and sophisticated that it amounts to brainwashing, for products that can and do make them sick.

As Mark Bittman writes in the Opinionator, "it's easy to get lost in the Constitution and forget that we're talking about children being bombarded by propaganda so clever and sophisticated that it amounts to brainwashing, for products that can and do make them sick".

He used Magna Carta as the basis of the Petition of Right, the proto-constitution that Parliament forced Charles I to sign.Decapitation and a further, more peaceful, revolution tamed the English monarchy; once Parliament was top dog, its members lost interest in constitutions.