Sentence examples for single constitution from inspiring English sources

The widespread – mainly German – revolutions of 1848 49 sought unification of Germany under a single constitution.

A single constitution was finally worked out between the two factions though the more powerful Democrats ultimately prevailed on most issues.

Since when do Americans vote on stripping certain citizens of their basic civil rights, rights protected under the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and every single state Constitution, and reinforced by the Supreme Court as recently as 1967?

These complex texts make the case for a single, coherent constitution for the EU.

First, if the UK has managed for so long without a single written constitution why can't the EU?

So the women decided to win the vote by amending every single state constitution, one by one.

In the absence of a single written constitution, many of the answers to these questions lie in the interpretation of case law, some of it going back centuries.

This must in part result from a shift in power from local to national government, a perverse consequence of a "single state" constitution.

But "even if something is legal in the U.K., it can be unconstitutional in India," Mr. Prakash argued, because constitutional protection for speech in India is better than in Britain, which does not have a single, codified constitution.

Having secured the accession of the princely states, the Government of India between 1948 and 1950 turned to the task of welding the states and the former British provinces into one polity under a single republican constitution.

Rather than a single document (the constitution) superseding previous EU treaties, the new document is a collection of legal protocols and amendments to the earlier treaties.