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constitutional Adjective

— If a law, a right, an action, etc. is constitutional, it is legal within the constitution of the particular country. The court ruled that the new law was constitutional and that there was no need for the government to change it. — If something is constitutional it is related to a constitution. I think freedom of speech should be a constitutional right for everyone because everyone should have right to speak out. The government is planning some constitutional changes. American has an elaborate system of constitutional checks and balances.

constitutional Noun

— If you take a constitutional, you go for a walk for exercise or health. (old fashioned word) He's nearly 80 and still takes a constitutional every morning.

constitutional

— adjective of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup constitutional walk — noun a regular walk taken as a form of exercise — adjective sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government the constitutional right of free speech constitutional government constitutional guarantees — adjective (= built-in) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity a constitutional inability to tell the truth — adjective constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)

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constitutive walk organic constituent lawful integral inherent inbuilt exercise essential built-in whole-body unlearned structural somatic sanitary physical innate inborn fundamental corporeal corporal constitutionally congenital component civil characteristic born bodily basic able-bodied

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Our whole case hinges on whether the government's actions were constitutional or not.

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Our constitutional has taken up too much time already.

No constitutional this morning.

Why not just regard the episode as a prolonged constitutional?

I'm a sworn officer of the law 24 hours a day and neither formality nor informality justifies you withholding the evidence of crime from me except on constitutional grounds.

It's constitutional, I reckon.

Constitutional lights.

I think you're a constitutional liar.

And I want you to know, I'm not going to allow you. to violate his constitutional rights.

Nothing but maintain their constitutional rights, as any red-blooded American would do.

But the prosecution is not calling the defendants. to account for violating constitutional guarantees. or withholding due process of law.

There they go, Horace, me lad, out for their evening constitutional.

In just a moment, a sad-faced, perennial punching bag who missed even the caboose of life's gravy train will take a short constitutional into that most unpredictable region that we refer to as the twilight zone.

The vice president will not exercise his constitutional privilege. to break this tie with an affirmative vote.

It would be within the constitutional rights?

This is a constitutional government.

The Doctor's out for his morning constitutional.

While I applaud your independence and admire your combative spirit. I'm afraid I fail to see where defendant herein has transgressed the legal bounds. which are the constitutional right of all citizens.

The Sicilian people want an Italy united and indivisible, with Victor Emmanuel as its constitutional monarch, and his legitimate heirs as successors to the throne.

I always take a constitutional before retiring, Mr. Enderby.

You are abrogating my constitutional rights, sir.

If Qaisette succeeds, Povia, a free constitutional monarchy, will become a military dictatorship.

Until as luck would have it, she spotted Margie taking her daily constitutional.

And that unless some constitutional reformation be brought about we would as well go back to our homes and our farms as pursue this mockery of a government one more day.

I am convinced, my lord, it be the duty of Parliament to frame a constitutional government, and not the army.

Taking your constitutional, I see?

It makes no difference. It'd take a Constitutional Amendment to get him out.

When the girls bring out the cards tonight, Let's stand on our constitutional rights And get drunk instead.

It's a constitutional issue.

This in itself is undoubtedly a great crime. But the prosecution is not calling the defendants to account for violating constitutional guaranties or withholding due process of law.

And that unless some constitutional reformation be brought about, we would as well go back to our homes and our farms as pursue this mockery of a government one more day.

I am deeply convinced, my lord, it be the duty of Parliament to frame a constitutional government, and not the army.

I've a right to speak on behalf of my constitutional rights!

I spoke on behalf of my constitutional rights.

He also holds classes in constitutional law at Berkeley.

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And, of course, being General Secretary carries no constitutional term limit.

It is, after all, President Kuchma who is discredited, not Ukraine's constitutional arrangements.

As the European Constitutional Convention assembles to debate the fine points of the European Union's future institutions, now is the moment to think the unthinkable about where Europe is heading.

Nations also put Europe's constitutional balance out of kilter.

Absent a clear path to a much tighter fiscal and political union, which can lead only through constitutional change, the current halfway house of the euro system appears increasingly untenable.

Indeed, under the LDP-led one-party-dominant system, this extra-constitutional mechanism became an integral part of Japan's government polity.

NEW YORK - Does monarchy - constitutional monarchy, that is, not the despotic kind - have any redeeming features left?

Their crime was to call for a constitutional monarchy.

Some countries even impose a constitutional mandate for equality of educational opportunities.

Power in China is somewhat informally defined, and its limits are set more by political realities than by constitutional arrangements.

America's founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which is why they created a constitutional system of internally separated powers to limit the executive.

For example, in all of the debates on the EU's constitutional treaty, neither its supporters nor its opponents have so much as mentioned the Lisbon Strategy.

Because the Czech Parliament's upper house has an absolute veto over constitutional amendments, the opportunity to amend the Constitution was lost.

But there will be no new initiatives on integration until leaders in the countries that rejected the Constitutional Treaty are ready for a new try.

Perhaps most importantly, non-constitutional justice systems, such as sharia, must be monitored and checked, if not prohibited altogether.

Immediately, the bombings began to be cited by some leaders as a call to limit constitutional rights.

We have approached the point when the constitutional requirement of universal, free education may become a fiction.

If Germany needed the Fund's involvement to save face domestically and because of a decision by its Constitutional Court, was it really necessary to wreak such unparalleled havoc in Europe just to bring that about?

This is the British idea of Europe, and the German Constitutional Court, too, would probably be happy about such a development.

Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that the entire crisis played out according to constitutional rules.

In the aftermath of the negative referendum votes in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland on European constitutional reform, it is close to inconceivable that EU heads of government would agree to set off down that path again.

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