CONSTITUTIONAL in a Sentence

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181 example sentences for CONSTITUTIONAL, such as:

1. I stand for freedom and constitutional rights.
2. Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
3. These rights are established in the federal constitution.
4. Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
5. It had been a speech such as only constitutional monarchs deliver.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSTITUTIONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
constitutional
 a.  of or relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  But from the head being removed while the trunk was still sound, it was not difficult for the Romans to return to a free and constitutional government.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII.
2  This, I say, should be seen to by him who would establish a constitutional government, whether in the form of a commonwealth or of a kingdom.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV.
3  When a republic is not provided with some safeguard such as this, either it must be ruined by observing constitutional forms, or else, to save it, these must be broken through.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
4  For kings who live, as these do, subject to constitutional restraint, are not to be counted when we have to consider each man's proper nature, and to see whether he resembles the multitude.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVIII.
5  Long after these constitutional powers had dispersed, my sister lay very ill in bed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
6  As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
7  Perhaps this was an agreeable excitement to the donkey-boys; or perhaps the more sagacious of the donkeys, understanding how the case stood, delighted with constitutional obstinacy in coming that way.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
8  It had been a speech such as only constitutional monarchs deliver.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
9  He now felt ashamed of his speech with its constitutional tendency and sought an opportunity of effacing it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
10  I should have associated my son in the Empire; my dictatorship would have been finished, and his constitutional reign would have begun.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  I stand for freedom and constitutional rights.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
13  On Sundays Stephen with his father and his grand-uncle took their constitutional.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  He's taking pure mathematics and I'm taking constitutional history.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  These are distinctions very suitable under a constitutional government.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  The American constitution was planned; the British constitution evolved.
17  The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
18  The lack of a written constitution is a peculiarity of the British political system.
19  No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
20  Parliament remains the central institution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.
21  The concept of individual liberty is enshrined in the constitution.
22  The president has promised a new constitution and the creation of democratic power structures.
23  These rights are established in the federal constitution.
24  The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
25  The nation's constitution provided a model that other countries followed.
26  The movement to change the union's constitution is slowly gathering momentum.
27  Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
28  Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies.
29  Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
30  Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.