How to Use constitutionalism in a Sentence

constitutionalism

noun

• At the end of the day, this comes down to originalism, constitutionalism.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• But that wouldn’t look good for a government and a prime minister who professes to be overseeing a new era of constitutionalism and rule of law.
  — Yonatan Fessha, Quartz Africa, 4 Dec. 2019
• In fact, constitutionalism is itself part of the problem.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Our own view was that the Republicans’ point about acting in an election year was secondary to the imperative to advance constitutionalism on the Court.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
• The initiative shows commitment to constitutionalism and respect for property rights and restoring the rule of law.
  — Misheck Mutize, Quartz Africa, 5 Aug. 2020
• But the stark tone of the speech—the broad attack on foreignness, the disregard for notions of liberty, equality, and constitutionalism—shows how that essential chauvinism isn’t far from the surface.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
• His appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is an outstanding appointment for avid constitutionalism.
  — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• Sajo is an expert in comparative constitutionalism and was involved in the drafting of the Ukrainian, Georgian and South African constitutions.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 5 May 2021
• Reclaiming the public schools will require a sustained movement akin to the modern pro-life movement or the effort to supplant living-constitutionalism with originalism.
  — Anthony Kinnett, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
• The theory of living constitutionalism, meanwhile, is rooted in the idea that the Constitution should adapt to the American people’s evolving values, as well as the needs of contemporary society.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
• As a central pillar to American history and constitutionalism for 244 years, IP converges tradition and progress to enrich the lives of citizens and society.
  — Lorenzo Montanari, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• Xi said, and should avoid Western ideas such as constitutionalism, balance of powers or judicial independence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Tocqueville believed the Americans had headed off this trajectory with their localism, their culture of rights, and their constitutionalism.
  — Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
• Rival theories such as purposivism, pragmatism, and living-constitutionalism empower judges to ignore and override legal texts in order to impose their own solutions to the problems of the age.
  — Ed Whelan, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• On the other hand, the usual liberal position – living constitutionalism – is clear.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
• What Marshall did accomplish—anchoring the national government’s power on a foundation of constitutionalism—helped forge the bonds that made possible, a few decades later, Lincoln’s preservation of the Union and emancipation of the slaves.
  — Adam J. White, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• The boundaries between these different conceptions of constitutionalism are not always perfectly clear, of course.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The antislavery constitutionalism that Lincoln embraced and helped develop would become the cornerstone for the politics of the Republican Party and in time would ignite southern secession.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• The new court upholds originalism, which has replaced its rival, living constitutionalism.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
• Few, if any, American politicians have ever succeeded as well as Webster at making constitutionalism so inspiring.
  — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• The first and perhaps foremost reason for the Founding’s ongoing centrality for American conservatism is that the Founding represents a type of apotheosis of Western constitutionalism.
  — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 6 Feb. 2022
• Ever since the founding, the U.S. sense of identity has been bound up with a sort of civic nationalism or distinctly American creed emphasizing the rule of law, constitutionalism, individual freedom, and limited government.
  — Colin Dueck, National Review, 21 Oct. 2019
• In their view, my arguments are fully reconcilable with common-good constitutionalism.
  — J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
• The 18th century was a period in which modern constitutionalism, with its particular emphasis on limited government and liberty under the rule of law, began taking on decisive form.
  — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 6 Feb. 2022
• American constitutionalism requires a distinctly republican virtue, and cannot do without it.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Trump isn’t going back to early 19th century constitutionalism.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• Many Chinese who survived the Cultural Revolution – including some party elites – came away with a conviction to prevent a similar catastrophe from happening again, China needed the rule of law, constitutionalism and protection of individual rights.
  — Selina Wang, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• While nonoriginalists cheer this as showing that originalism differs little in practice from living constitutionalism, this has led some originalists to deny or disparage the distinction itself.
  — Randy Barnett, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2017
• In 1851, Douglass announced his endorsement of anti-slavery constitutionalism.
  — Timothy Sandefur, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• Because originalism and common-good constitutionalism, despite their differences, remain two sides of the same coin demarcated in a medieval currency that post-Reformation consensus liberals have never previously learned to trade.
  — Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024