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overconstitutional

overconstitutional adjective: excessively constitutional.

Adjective

overconstitutional

  1. (rare) Excessively constitutional.
    • And if this social life guided by norms does not tend to justice, if it does not learn the lessons of the past, if it does not get into people’s hearts, and if it does not reflect the changing and permanent tendencies of major principles that provide for social stability, it will eventually give...1990, APEC (Association), A Economia brasileira e suas perspectivas, page 162, column 2
    • Edit: You can see that by the decision about a law that wanted to give the government the right to shoot down a plane that was kidnapped by terrorists. The constiutional court said there can't be a law that puts innocent peoples life in the plain beyond the life of innocent people in the...2017 August 28, u/MisterMysterios, “The Germans now have an official ethics guideline for self-driving cars. (Kill animals first, treats all human lives equally regardless of age)”, in...

Origin of overconstitutional

From over- + constitutional.

Questions about overconstitutional

What does overconstitutional mean?
Overconstitutional means excessively constitutional.
What part of speech is overconstitutional?
Overconstitutional is an adjective.

Words near overconstitutional in the dictionary

  1. overconsolidates
  2. overconsolidating
  3. overconsolidation
  4. overconsolidations
  5. overconstancy
  6. overconstitutional
  7. overconstitutionalized
  8. overconstrain
  9. overconstrained
  10. overconstraining
  11. overconstrains

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