How to Use constitution in a Sentence

constitution

noun

• The state's constitution has strict rules about what tax money can be used for.
• Members of the club have drafted a new constitution.
• What is the molecular constitution of the chemical?
• The state's original constitution is on display at the museum.
• He has a robust constitution.
• Only animals with strong constitutions are able to survive the island's harsh winters.
• There is no such body of rights in the state or federal constitutions.
  — Graham Underwood, arkansasonline.com, 6 Oct. 2024
• Why is this change being made in the Indiana constitution?
  — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2024
• Those leaders this year tried to limit the ability of citizens to file amendments to directly change the constitution.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2024
• The constitution, which has nearly 1,000 amendments, is still the longest in the United States.
  — Sarah Swetlik | [e-mail], al, 9 Nov. 2022
• Measure 111 would add an aspirational right to affordable healthcare in the state constitution.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2022
• Indigenous rights are written into the Brazilian constitution.
  — Richard Schiffman, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2022
• Arkansas' first state constitution, adopted in 1836, authorized a poll tax to be used for county purposes.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
• No on Proposal 3, the ballot initiative that would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• To thwart the constitution and the orders of the court.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2022
• The state is the first to amend its constitution to do so.
  — Allison Garfield, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2020
• The brothers need 150 seats to be able to change the constitution.
  — Bharatha Mallawarachi, Star Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• The object in question is the body of the constitution.
  — Marc Fisher, David Nakamura, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
• Hundreds of Tunisians marched in protest of the draft constitution in the days leading up to the vote.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Voters in 2015 added the new rules to the state constitution.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• The plants are now due to be mothballed, but the constitution is standing in the way.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• Trace the path where the state constitution was stashed in the Charter Oak Tree.
  — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2024
• That's because the constitution leaves that kind of police power in the hands of the states.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
• The judges have not only upheld the constitution in the past year.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• This led to a clash over how the constitution can be amended.
  — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
• Cilek says his group believes such a change would need to be made to the state constitution.
  — Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2019
• Once the results of the April 2024 election are certified, the new parts of the constitution would be in place.
  — Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
• Slavery was a big part of the debate around the constitution.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• The other way to change the constitution is by amendment.
  — Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2018
• That rule is in the state constitution and no one in Sacramento wants to take that on.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 16 July 2019

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024