Constitutional Definition

kŏnstĭ-to͝oshə-nəl, -tyo͝o-
constitutionals
adjective
Consistent with, sanctioned by, or permissible according to a constitution.
A law that was declared constitutional by the court; the constitutional right of free speech.
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Upholding the constitution.
Webster's New World
Of or in the constitution of a person or thing; basic; essential.
Webster's New World
Established by or operating under a constitution.
A constitutional government.
American Heritage
Of, in, authorized by, subject to, dependent on, dealing with, or in accordance with the constitution of a nation, state, or society.
Constitutional rights, a constitutional monarchy.
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constitutionals
A walk taken for one's health.
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constitutional
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constitutionals

Constitutional Sentence Examples

  • The constitutional history of Aegina is unusually simple.

  • It is, however, to be noticed that absolute monarchies are confined to the east of Europe and to Asia, Japan being the only established constitutional monarchy east of the Carpathians.

  • In a monarchy, despotic or constitutional, there cannot in strictness be an aristocracy, because the whole political power cannot be vested in the noble Venice class.

  • He was a judge of the New Hampshire Court of Common Pleas in 17761 777, a member (and speaker) of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1776 until 1782, a member of the state Constitutional Convention of 1778 and of the state Senate in 1784-1785, and in1783-1784was again a member of Congress.

  • His military genius was displayed in the Social War and the campaigns against Mithradates; while his constitutional reforms, although doomed to failure from the lack of successors to carry them out, were a triumph of organization.

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