How to Use constitutional in a Sentence

constitutional

adjective

• Constitutional symptoms of the disease include headache and fever.
• He has a constitutional dislike of controversy.
• The state then runs roughshod over your constitutional rights.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• Australia does not have a broad constitutional right to freedom of speech, as in the United States.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Biden has talked a lot recently about threats to constitutional procedure and the rule of law.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Feb. 2024
• The tactic had been on the books in D.C. during its crack epidemic but it was repealed in 2014 amid constitutional concerns.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• That could be a way out of a thorny constitutional situation.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• Donald Trump committed a grave offense against our constitutional system in the wake of the 2020 elections.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• That, in turn, has focused new attention on an idea that has attracted support from constitutional scholars on both the left and the right: term limits.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• Last year, Bunning ruled that Davis violated the constitutional rights of the two couples who sued her with the trials held this week being used to determine the damages.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• The election was the result of a months-long fight that began last year, when Republicans introduced a plan to tighten the rules for constitutional amendments.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• The most grotesque example came in, where else, Texas, where so much of the right-wing constitutional litigation originates.
  — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
• Forget the weighty legal arguments over the meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors or the constitutional history of the removal process.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• The tech groups challenged the Texas law in federal district court in September 2021 on a constitutional basis.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2024
• After the riot — the physical attack on Congress, for the purpose of stopping a constitutional process — Romney spoke on the Senate floor.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• That, Cross said, undermined Jones’ constitutional right to a fair trial.
  — The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2024
• That is unconstitutional and the right to work laws are in fact the real constitutional matter.
  — Akash Chougule, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• The court also found the statute Disney is challenging constitutional, meaning that the company cannot bring a free speech challenge against the lawmakers who passed it.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
• But constitutional scholars have warned that Newsom’s plan could be risky by opening the door for other changes to the U.S. Constitution if a convention took place.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Trial Judges by constitutional design are present in the courtroom to maintain order over the litigants and attorneys for the jury to reach a verdict.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• The constitutional principle of the separation of powers is central to all three.
  — Helgi C. Walker, WSJ, 21 June 2023
• But the plaintiffs in Braidwood v. Becerra argue the group has no constitutional authority to make those calls, and a lower court sided with them.
  — Rachel Cohrs Reprints, STAT, 29 Feb. 2024
• That's tough in our state because there's a constitutional prohibition against it.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• The change would empower the votes of rural residents in statewide elections on constitutional amendments.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• Anderman, the senior counsel at Giffords, said that red-flag laws have so far survived constitutional challenges across the country.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• The Reconstruction Amendments are the constitutional version of these Acts.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• That constitutional requirement, reflective of the state’s long reverence for the outdoors, was the base of Judge Seeley’s decision.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
• The blocks raise questions about whether schools’ online censorship runs afoul of constitutional law and federal guidance.
  — Tara García Mathewson, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• The Colorado court’s ruling, issued in a case related to a deadly arson attack, does not weigh in on whether keyword search warrants are constitutional.
  — WIRED, 21 Oct. 2023
• But the recent trend of the press to intrude into the private lives of innocent individuals in the name of ‘getting the story’ demonstrates the dwindling interest in the equally valid constitutional right to privacy.
  — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024