Sentence examples for the constitution rejects from inspiring English sources

To the contrary, the Framers were acutely aware of and deeply concerned about the dangers of interest-group politics and overweening government, and the structure of the Constitution rejects reflexive deference to the legislative branch.

Rhode Island, the only state to hold a popular referendum on the Constitution, rejected it.

On October 18th he arrived for a summit in Lisbon, where EU leaders hoped to agree on a treaty to replace the constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters two years ago.

The new Lisbon constitution rejects any such paradox.

Abroad, he has mended Franco-American relations, sent troops to Afghanistan and helped to secure a simplified version of the EU constitution rejected by the French voters two years earlier.

The occupiers allowed Japan to develop an expedient myth that its people and its emperor — officially considered synonymous — had been innocent victims rather than willful perpetrators of the militarism that the new Constitution rejected.

The First Amendment, which, along with its siblings Second through Tenth, was among the first business of Congress under the new Constitution, rejected a national religious establishment.

But it is also because she has lit on another priority altogether: to revive the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters.The story of the constitution (or more accurately, constitutional treaty) is tedious, but it must be told to explain why the EU is in turmoil.

Opposed to what they see as a repackaged version of the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, the Tories have promised a referendum on the treaty if it is not in force by the time they come to power.

Maximalists who wanted to preserve the entire constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in mid-2005 were aghast at concessions to minimalists such as Britain and Poland.

The summit is due to thrash out final demands for changes to a new "reform treaty", a thinly disguised reworking of the draft constitution rejected by Dutch and French voters in 2005.Eurocrats usually blame their troubles on cynical Brussels-bashing by national politicians.