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• If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution.From the entry government
• The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.From the entry convention
• The fifth amendment to the United States constitution provides explicitly for the protection of private property.From the entry explicitly
• The constitution prescribes how to resolve a tie in the electoral vote.From the entry electoral vote
• We used the US constitution as the Platonic ideal of the ideology of our new state.From the entry Platonic ideal
• Many constitutions enshrine the separation of church and state.From the entry church
• The same food does not agree with every constitution.From the entry agree
• Ernest has a cast iron constitution and never gets sick.From the entry cast iron
• So, given that Claude is not conscious, what are we to make of Claude’s constitution?2026 June 3, Ted Chiang, “No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry roleplaying game
• His whole constitution was that of an emaciated, suffering man, malarial and gaunt.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 409. From the entry malarial
• Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution.2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, “Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'”, in The Guardian. From the entry pressing
• Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry exception
• But used in the constitution it may not be mere existence.2008, Colin Gonsalves, Vijay Hiremath, Rebecca Gonsalvez, editors, Prisoners' Rights, volume 2, Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) (A…. From the entry dictionarily
• While there is now a Department of Constitutional Affairs, there is no formal constitution.a. 2004, Dilys M. Hill, “Constitutional Reform”, in Raymond Plant, Matt Beech, Kevin Hickson, editors, The Struggle for Labour's Soul…. From the entry relatedly
• He was a man of iron constitution, and he was reputed to be a deadly shot.2000, F. W. Anderson, Art Downs, The Death of Albert Johnson: Mad Trapper of Rat River, page 80. From the entry trailsman
• Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?1997, John Llewelyn Davies with David J. Vaughan, Republic, translation of original by Plato, page 263. From the entry mean
• This ancipital character of a constitution raises the problem of its adaptability or flexibility.1988, Thomas Fleiner-Gerster, Modern Constitution, page 192. From the entry ancipital
• Well say he's got the constitution of a dinosaur, recuperative powers ditto.1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, DeForest Kelley (actor). From the entry ditto
• Always wanted to have the constitution to eat these fearlessly, perhaps with a glass of orange.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 104. From the entry wiener
• Investigation of the chemical constitution showed that it has the properties of N-methyl-2:3-dihydro-3-hydroxyindole-5:6-quinone.1937, David Ezra Green, “Adrenaline and Adrenochrome”, in The Biochemical Journal, volume 31, number 4, page 596. From the entry adrenochrome
• No, sir; there wasn't a milligramme of gall in old man Shakespeare's constitution.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry milligramme
• The party plans to scrap the military-drafted constitution, and bring the army's many business interests under the Ministry of Finance.2023 May 29, Jonathan Head, “Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai election upstart who vows to be different”, in BBC. From the entry scrap
• The British constitution famously rests on convention.2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry quasi-
• The Skynet model from the Terminator movies didn't really work, because true consciousness was a by-product of chemistry and physical constitution.2017 April, Jonathan Maberry, chapter 128, in Dogs of War: A Joe Ledger Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 518. From the entry Skynet
• As for America’s constitution, speaking as the court’s originalist-in-chief, all that mattered was what its words meant when it was framed.2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist. From the entry frame
• If he were a king, as his swagger and opera-singing occasionally suggested, he would stretch the constitution any way he wanted.2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2020. From the entry handcuff
• Remember that the fathers of Vatican II had rejected the first draft of the constitution on revelation entirely.2014, Ronald D. Witherup, The Word of God at Vatican II: Exploring Dei Verbum, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry father
• Such memoriousness is too much for the human constitution.2014, John Sutherland, How to be Well Read. From the entry memoriousness
• By internalizing ideational valuations of PMS, men and women reinforce the appearance of a psychosomatic constitution of PMS.2006, Kristen Brown, Nietzsche And Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism. From the entry PMS
• First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history?1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry existential
• Yet from the point of view of his nervous constitution, Fox was a psychopath or détraqué of the deepest dye.1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry détraqué
• The Spanish constitution dictates that the king is obliged to dissolve the legislative body two months after the first failed investiture vote.2023 July 24, Aitor Hernández-Morales, “Sánchez's tricky road to victory after shock Spanish election result”, in Politico, retrieved 06…. From the entry investiture
• Parliament, dominated by supporters of the government, voted on Thursday to delay making a decision on whether it will amend the constitution.2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 25…. From the entry buy time
• In my book Britain has actually worked out how it wants to leave and the EU is preparing a new constitution as a result.2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Tom Hillenbrand, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian. From the entry dystopian
• Going from its one-horse hotel, to the model hotel of Philadelphia, was almost too sudden a change even for my excellent constitution.2016, Fanny Fern, Folly as It Flies, page 112. From the entry one-horse
• And the question is now, from a normative point of view, how we can argue to treat the genetic natural constitution of humans as indisposable.2014, Marion Albers, Thomas Hoffmann, Jörn Reinhardt, Human Rights and Human Nature, page 167. From the entry indisposability
• Unfortunately, the people who are voting democrat do not care about the constitution in any area where it limits their grand vision of Ameritopia.2012 November 11, brent, “Re: OT: OBAMA WINS ANOTHER FOUR YEARS!!!’”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet). From the entry Ameritopia
• For example, during the nineteenth century, courts often considered whether a claimed right fell within an enumerated right in the federal or state constitution.2009, Kurt T. Lash, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, page 80. From the entry enumerated
• Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory attributes an essential role to paranoïa as regards the constitution of subjectivity: «Sans cette dimension paranoiac, il n’y a pas de sujet.2002, Clive Thomson, “Mikhail Bakhtin’s Toward a Philosophy of the Act: Performance and Paranoïa”, in Dialogue. Carnival. Chronotope.…. From the entry paranoïa

Meaning of constitution

1. noun The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
2. noun The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
3. noun A legal document describing such a formal system.

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How do you use constitution in a sentence?

Constitution is used as a noun. For example: “He has a strong constitution, so he should make a quick recovery from the illness.”

What is a short sentence with constitution?

“The British constitution famously rests on convention.”

What does constitution mean?

Constitution means the act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.