Sentence examples for under a constitutional from inspiring English sources

B | From 'The English Constitution' by Walter Bagehot (1867): "The sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights – the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.

Mr. Ajami was arrested under a constitutional provision that forbids criticism of the emir, however indirect.

Under a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 1988, schools are guaranteed a portion of any fresh revenues.

(It was only in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled, in Griswold v. Connecticut, that contraception was protected under a Constitutional right to privacy).

He behaved well to the white farmers, on whom much of his economy depended and whose farms were to be gradually and voluntarily redistributed under a constitutional accord.

A parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch, the kingdom includes its former colonies in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.

But under Mr. Kostunica, a constitutional lawyer, the distinctions between the narrow competency of the federal government and the broad powers of the Serbian one will have greater impact.

The constitution originally provided for a constitutional monarchy under two coheads of state, with the provision that when one died (as happened in 1963), the other would continue as sole monarch and head of state for life, after which future heads of state would be elected by the Legislative Assembly (Fono Aoao Faitulafono) to five-year terms.

Jill Lepore, in her article on Planned Parenthood, mentions that the Griswold v. Connecticut case "placed contraception under the protection of a constitutional right to privacy" ("Birthright," November 14th).

On domestic issues, he noted that efforts were under way to hold a constitutional referendum to end the conflict in Chechnya.

Personhood amendments could be interpreted to make several forms of birth control illegal, challenging not only Roe v. Wade but also Griswold v. Connecticut, which placed contraception under the protection of a constitutional right to privacy.