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• The tactic had been on the books in D.C. during its crack epidemic but it was repealed in 2014 amid constitutional concerns.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
• Johnston says the bar for constitutional gun restrictions must remain high.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024