NOUN
- the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states
How To Use Constitution of the United States In A Sentence
- Our nation's charter -- The Constitution of the United States -- to this day contains unstricken text that established the legal framework for slavery. Mike Stark: What You Might Not Know About the Constitution
- This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
- FELLOW-CITIZENS of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly, and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of his office. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
- bills of attainder are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States
- Whatever may be the responsibility of those nations whose executives possess the power of declaring war and of adopting other coercive remedies without the intervention of the legislative department, for the language held by the Executive in addressing that department, it is obvious that under the Constitution of the United States, which gives to the Executive no such powers, but vests them exclusively in the Legislature, whilst at the same time it imposes on the Executive the duty of laying before the Legislature the state of the nation, with such recommendations as he may deem proper, no such responsibility can be admitted without impairing that freedom of intercommunication which is essential to the system and without surrendering in this important particular the right of self-government. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)
- No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.” LAST CALL
- The Federalist Party is a name that was originally applied to the advocates of ratification of the Constitution of the United States of 1787.
- “The privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States.” The Volokh Conspiracy » “Incorporation,” Originalism, and the Confrontation Clause:
- Aldridge says: ...permit me to say that the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly defined in the first Eight Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The Volokh Conspiracy » McDonald amicus: Don’t trust Fairman and Berger
- The privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The Volokh Conspiracy » I’ll say it if Justice Souter Won’t:
