When she was twelve years old, Anna came out, and went to a succession of parties, which she called constitutions, where girls only were invited. ❋ Maggiemac (2009)
The idea that governments can be limited by written constitutions is a fantasy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Enshrining discrimination in state constitutions is not what makes a country great. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The careful attention given to the security and seclusion of nuns in the constitutions is reiterated by Herman. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For instance, the outer margin at the end of the constitutions is marked, "This is the end, stop here" in Latin and German. 123 The nuns kept the manuscript up to the Order's requirements by adding saints to the litany. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They are purists who worry too much about abstract theories concerning fundamental principles which should be incorporated in constitutions, without fully understanding and appreciating the nature of practical politics. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And most countries, at least in constitutions written since World War II, have wisely chosen to have limited terms for their highest courts. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One of the beauties of the federal Constitution, in contrast to many state constitutions, is that it deals in broad and enduring principles — principles that have allowed it to last. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Speaking of the probable enforcement of the National Constitution against the "Grandfather clause" in Southern constitutions, Walter E. Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, said: ❋ Various (N/A)
Then the whole world realized the great truth that the foundations of empire are not found in constitutions or statutes, in law books or musty parchments, nor are they found in armies and navies, but in the hearts and souls of men. ❋ Unknown (1919)
This was the period during which autonomous constitutions were worked out, in broad outline at all events, in the Colonies, and the variety of these constitutions is indicative partly of anterior conditions and partly of the existence of other nationalities. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Because of this, most of Latin American constitutions were drawn following the liberal template adopted by the US: the division of power among the executive, the legislative and the judiciary in order to avoid the political trampling of any of them on the people by would-be saviours of various political stripes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlike other Latin American constitutions, this one has been able to stand up to rabble-rousing, referendum-using populists precisely because some sections may not legally be repealed by any means. ❋ Unknown (2009)
MSS: Item vetoes exist in various forms in many Latin American constitutions and the Philippines. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Paris, were prompt with their plans, not for "constitutions" -- Bonaparte had put an end to that branch of their _métier_ -- but for reorganizing the laws, administration, &c., of Transylvania _de fond en comble_, without knowing any thing of the people or country, without having seen either the one or the other. ❋ Various (N/A)
This raises the interesting general question of how judicial review deals with internally contradictory provisions in constitutions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The new rules aim to sanction governments failing to meet the fiscal rules in a near-automatic way and anchor balanced-budget amendments in national constitutions. ❋ Tom Fairless (2011)
In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day they are preserved there, and are called The constitutions of the great governor Sancho Panza. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The more recent laws not only those which contain decisions on special points, but also those which apply only to particular orders or congregations, are properly called constitutions; the rule is always recommended by its antiquity: where there exist both a rule and constitutions, the rule, without having any greater force, nevertheless contains the more general and consequently more stable elements, which are also common to many religious orders or congregations. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
