"constitutional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, this power was executive and not judicial in nature, and its existence could not remedy the constitutional defect in the sentencing process.
- Historically, courts have been reluctant to overturn lawmakers' actions without some compelling reason, like a finding of a constitutional defect.
- The incongruity of its provisions, a grave constitutional defect, was in part attributed to obscure language.
- The current law was passed in 1981 to correct these constitutional defects.
- Congress responded in 1984 with changes to remedy constitutional defects.
- Adarand now argues that changes to the program since then have not cured the basic constitutional defect of incorporating a racial classification into federal law and regulations.
- New York's highest court found a constitutional defect in the state's death penalty system in 2004, and legislators in Albany have so far not corrected it.
- Mr. Cuomo is expected to approve the bill, but he said the proposed amendment had a "constitutional defect."
- It is unfortunate that the majority opinion rests solely on the procedural problem, never reaching the more profound constitutional defect.
- But the clear and forceful parsing of the statute's myriad constitutional defects by the judge, Phyllis Hamilton, provides a worthy model for decisions to come.
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