Sentence examples for narrow constitution from inspiring English sources

Such an amendment was just one of dozens of changes that the Justice and Development Party was expected to propose a few weeks ago as part of a comprehensive overhaul of Turkey's state-centered, ethnically narrow Constitution.

Most of the officers in the Athenian fleet accepted the plan and welcomed the prospect of a narrower constitution, which would allow them a greater share in determining policy.

There are narrow constitutional restrictions on that, but otherwise the Constitution is very clear".

In an 1896 decision, Ratliff v. Beale, the Mississippi Supreme Court confirmed that the new state constitution narrowed the disenfranchisement provision to target certain crimes such as theft, perjury, forgery and bigamy of which blacks were then more often convicted.

"He took a very narrow construction of the Constitution, we'll say it that way.

His dangerously narrow reading of the Constitution was rightly reversed by a federal appeals court.

Questions about whether specific scenarios occurred to 18th- and 19th-century drafters inherently skew toward rigidly narrow interpretations of the Constitution.

Accepting the company's extremely narrow reading of the Constitution would invalidate a practice that has resulted in hundreds of appointments over the years.

One version came to the Senate floor in April, but it was withdrawn after it became clear that objections to putting such a narrow amendment in the Constitution would keep it from being passed.

"We regard this narrow reading of the Constitution as being at odds with the text of the Fifth Amendment, overarching notions of fundamental fairness, relevant case law, and the policy goals supporting the privilege against self-incrimination," he wrote.

But that is just what conservative justices have been doing with sovereign immunity, a doctrine that insulates states from being sued, which the court has taken far beyond the narrow words of the Constitution.