Sentence examples for on constitutional principles from inspiring English sources

Only Rand Paul in this group would be described as a solid conservative who has supported Trump regularly on policy but here takes a principled stance based on constitutional principles.

The founding fathers sought to avoid these extremes and create a balanced government based on constitutional principles.

"This list," Trump's Facebook announcement was careful to emphasize, "was compiled, first and foremost, based on constitutional principles, with input from highly respected conservatives and Republican party leadership".

Mr. Liu, a longtime human rights advocate and writer, was detained on Dec. 8, 2008, for playing a leading role in drafting Charter 08, which demands gradual political and legal reforms based on constitutional principles.

In a separate series of decisions based not on constitutional principles but on the Supreme Court's general power to supervise the federal judicial system, the court held that confessions obtained after "unreasonable delay" in taking suspects to court for arraignment could not be used as evidence in a federal court.

At this year's rally, one speaker used her brief time to argue that denying Medicaid coverage and labor-organizing rights violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws," not a doctrinally sound position but part of a long tradition of calling on constitutional principles to dignify political claims.

Convoluted objections on constitutional principle have been put forward by the lawyer for a minor defendant, almost certainly with the connivance of the Chirac clan.

Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle.

"Because our decision is based on constitutional principle and born of a necessity to protect the will of the American people, this Committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next President is sworn in on January 20 , 2017" reads the letter.

"Because our decision is based on constitutional principle and born of a necessity to protect the will of the American people, this Committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next President is sworn in on January 20 , 2017" reads a letter signed by all the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A spokesman for Porter said that since both cases raised "important questions about the power to regulate elections, the commonwealth attorney general has intervened to assist the court on questions of constitutional principle".