Modifying Another Word

• therefore: He thought that the new homicide law was therefore unconstitutional.

• not: But the court argued that discrimination laws do not entitle same sex couples to marriage and the ban is therefore not unconstitutional.

• entirely: In overcoming the opposition the conspirators employed methods which were entirely unconstitutional and at times wholly ruthless.

• completely: While their conduct was completely unconstitutional, no action was taken against them.

• clearly: This act is clearly unconstitutional, a breach of the right to free speech guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

Preposition: by

• court: The stupid law banning electronic games has been found unconstitutional by the court that was judging the " criminals " .

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• declare: In 1965 the Supreme Court declared this practice unconstitutional.

• rule: In any case, sense soon prevailed when a judge ruled the new law unconstitutional.

• wiretap: Court rules NSA wiretapping program unconstitutional, orders halt Bird flu panic.

Modifies a noun

• act: The first contingency is that the head of state must have a reserve power to refuse his assent to an unconstitutional act of Parliament.

• action: It has only been through the litigation by activists that the truth of these unconstitutional actions has been brought to light.

• law: All we can really hope is that the Judges will use the powers they have lately taken to themselves to set aside unconstitutional laws.

• measure: December 26, 1783 Coachmakers Hall ' Is not the interference of the Crown to influence the decisions of Parliament, an unconstitutional Measure?

• mean: In 1999 the OAU took a further step in agreeing to exclude countries whose governments came to power by unconstitutional means.

• force: The authorities claimed that his description of the Metropolitan police as a " blood thirsty and unconstitutional force " was seditious libel.

Used with adjective complement

• declare: Article 21 declares unconstitutional any parties which seek to abolish the democratic order.

• rule: In the process segregation and separate but equal was ruled unconstitutional by the court on May 17, 1954.

• consider: Actually, they can, but do not because it would be considered unconstitutional.

• deem: In later years many acts in the New Deal were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of America.

• find: The stupid law banning electronic games has been found unconstitutional by the court that was judging the " criminals " .