Use constitution in a sentence
Sentences starting with constitution
- Constitution has more to do with belief than people think for. [6]
Sentences ending with constitution
- You may thank your Scotch blood and your strong constitution. [9]
- It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
- This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same thing as to the States existing at the adoption of the Constitution. [7]
- He had a wonderful vitality, an astonishing constitution. [5]
- This covers the whole ground, from the settlement of a Territory till it reaches the degree of maturity entitling it to form a State Constitution. [7]
- In that Congress were three of the "thirty-nine" who framed the original Constitution. [7]
- That would be violating your own view of the Constitution. [7]
- She is certainly very delicate, and greatly needs a change of air and scene to renovate her constitution. [14]
- Now he tells us again that it is all over and the people of Kansas have voted down the Lecompton Constitution. [7]
- This is due to the people, both on principle and under the Constitution. [7]
Short sentences using constitution
- The framers of that Constitution. [7]
- His constitution seems much shattered. [14]
- In man's moral constitution. [5]
Sentences containing constitution two or more times
- Can you, if you swear to support the Constitution, and believe that the Constitution establishes a right, clear your oath, without giving it support? [7]
- You have assembled to testify your respect for the Union, the Constitution, and the laws; and here let me say that it is with you, the people, to advance the great cause of the Union and the Constitution, and not with any one man. [7]
- The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. [7]
- Under this constitution the State wishes to return to its full allegiance, in the enjoyment of all rights and privileges exercised by the other States under the Federal Constitution. [7]
- They formally adopted the revised constitution, which had been agreed upon at the first meeting, in New York in the preceding January, and elected officers as prescribed by the constitution. [4]
- Made firm in the Constitution, so made that it cannot be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution; durable as the Constitution, and part of the Constitution. [7]
- It is in the Constitution, and I do not for that cause, or any other cause, propose to destroy, or alter, or disregard the Constitution. [7]
- I am aware that copyright must have a limit, because that is required by the Constitution of the United States, which sets aside the earlier Constitution, which we call the decalogue. [5]
- One provision of that Constitution is, that it shall be the supreme law of the land,--I do not quote the language,--any constitution or law of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. [7]
- That Constitution consists of the original, framed in 1787 (and under which the present Government first went into operation), and twelve subsequently framed amendments, the first ten of which were framed in 1789. Who were our fathers that framed the Constitution? [7]
More example sentences with the word constitution in them
- Get emancipation into your new State government constitution and there will be no such word as fail for your cause. [7]
- You must cut your climate to your constitution, as much as your clothing to your shape. [6]
- May I send you the Constitution and Laws of the Club? [5]
- It is where you say: "The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security. [7]
- On enquiry he would find that they were adapted to live under widely different climates, and that they differed somewhat in bodily constitution and mental disposition. [1]
- The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
- It was vocal with the declaration, when you got it, for a submission of the constitution to the people. [7]
- I know that, with reference to the Lecompton Constitution, I may be misunderstood; but when you understand me correctly, my proposition will be true and accurate. [7]
- Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
- And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow. [9]
- He says: "I will ask the senator to show me an intimation, from any one member of the Senate, in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, and in the Union, from any quarter, that the constitution was not to be submitted to the people. [7]
- Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. [7]
- No man can, who does not give the Abolitionists an argument to deny the obligation enjoined by the Constitution to enact a Fugitive State law. [7]
- I mean here what he says about the fixing of the Rio Grande as her boundary in her old constitution (not her State constitution), about forming Congressional districts, counties, etc. [7]
- She had learned what had occurred, but the physician had assured her that with my vigorous constitution I should regain my health if I followed his directions. [10]
- In the evenings we would have political arguments, for the Confederacy was in a seething state between the Federalists and the Republicans over the new Constitution, now ratified. [9]
- That is the way people of his constitution are apt to take a bit of pleasantry. [6]
- The same thing was true of the whole nation at the time our Constitution was formed. [7]
- Her healthy constitution was rapidly rallying. [10]
- What we do want is the conclusive evidence that respectable citizens of Louisiana are willing to be members of Congress and to swear support to the Constitution, and that other respectable citizens there are willing to vote for them and send them. [7]
- The dispute was upon the question of fact, whether the Lecompton Constitution had been fairly formed by the people or not. [7]
- By gradual and unexplained degrees, the constitution of the State has been changed until there are only twenty senators. [9]
- This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. [7]
- What do you understand by supporting the Constitution of a State, or of the United States? [7]
- I got an ugly cut from the carving-knife in an affair with a goose of iron constitution in which I came off second best. [6]
- Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it. [7]
- In regard to Trumbull's charge that he [Douglas] inserted a provision into the bill to prevent the constitution being submitted to the people, what was his answer? [7]
- The world belongs to the student, but he must put himself into harmony with the constitution of things. [6]
- Thus, away back to the Constitution, in the pure, fresh, free breath of the Revolution, the State of Virginia and the national Congress put that policy into practice. [7]
- I wish now to submit a few remarks on the general proposition of amending the Constitution. [7]
- They have assumed to make a national constitution of their own, in which of necessity they have either discarded or retained the right of secession as they insist it exists in ours. [7]
- Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? [7]
- You are ready to grant anything but a constitution. [9]
- Is it not to give such constitutional helps to the rights established by that Constitution as may be practically needed? [7]
- And in writing to Carlyle, he says:-- "You are of the Anakirn and know nothing of the debility and postponement of the blonde constitution. [6]
- There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. [1]
- I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. [5]
- The people were to be left "perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution. [7]
- What is it to be "affirmed" in the Constitution? [7]
- You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people do crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. [7]
- On examination of this proclamation it will appear, as is believed, that nothing will be attempted beyond what is amply justified by the Constitution. [7]
- He had, I think, a great deal more to do with the steps that led to the Lecompton Constitution than Mr. Buchanan had; though at last, when they reached it, they quarreled over it, and their friends divided upon it. [7]
- He had the thick hand, stubbed fingers, with bristled pads between their joints, square, broad thumb-nails, and sturdy limbs, which mark a constitution made to use in rough out-door work. [6]
- Before the Constitution they prohibited its introduction into the Northwestern Territory, the only country we owned then free from it. [7]
- So many of these gentlemen arose in the different states, and they were so clever, and they found so many chinks in the Constitution to crawl through and steal the people's chestnuts, that the Era may be called the Boss-Era. [9]
- The nature of these differences is unknown, but they relate more especially to the reproductive system, and much less so to external structure or to ordinary differences in constitution. [1]
- This manifestation is therefore to be regarded by me as expressing their devotion to the Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people. [7]
- In this Congress there were sixteen of the thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution. [7]
- In my judgment there is no avoiding that result, save that the American people shall see that constitutions are better construed than our Constitution is construed in that decision. [7]
- Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied? [7]
- Blind forces in themselves; shaping thoughts as they shaped features and battled for the moulding of constitution and the mingling of temperament. [6]
- Not one of them ever had a State constitution independent of the Union. [7]
- The Constitution of the United States was established to ensure domestic hostility. [5]
- He can't stand the smell of this Lecompton Constitution Buchanan is trying to jam down their throats. [9]
- Have they not the same Constitution that they have lived under for seventy-odd years? [7]
- Her State constitution the republic's most solemn and well-considered act, that which may, without impropriety, be called her last will and testament, revoking all others-makes no such claim. [7]
- Let us consider the real case with which we are dealing, and apply to it the parts of the Constitution plainly made for such cases. [7]
- The Constitution contemplates the question as likely to occur for decision, but it does not expressly declare who is to decide it. [7]
- In this emergency the President felt it his duty to employ with energy the extraordinary powers which the Constitution confides to him in cases of insurrection. [7]
- If he uses the power justly, the same people will probably justify him; if he abuses it, he is in their hands to be dealt with by all the modes they have reserved to themselves in the Constitution. [7]
- Let him take the oath of December 8, and go to work for the new constitution, and on your notifying me of it, I will immediately issue the special pardon for him. [7]
- It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. [7]
- It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. [7]
- The Constitution is the most practical state document ever made. [4]
- I believed that the mining stocks I had on hand would soon be worth $100,000, and thought if they reached that before the Constitution was adopted, I would sell out and make myself secure from the crash the change of government was going to bring. [5]
- The security of the medical profession against this and all similar fancies is in the average constitution of the human mind with regard to the laws of evidence. [3]
- Can he withhold the legislation which his neighbor needs for the enjoyment of a right which is fixed in his favor in the Constitution of the United States which he has sworn to support? [7]
- The Constitution authorizes the Executive to grant or withhold the pardon at his own absolute discretion, and this includes the power to grant on terms, as is fully established by judicial and other authorities. [7]
- By the Constitution, the executive may recommend measures which he may think proper, and he may veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress. [7]
- With respect to the exciting causes we can only say, as when speaking of so-called spontaneous variations, that they relate much more closely to the constitution of the varying organism, than to the nature of the conditions to which it has been subjected. [1]
- There is all the difference in the world in the mental as in the bodily constitution of different individuals. [6]
- You prefer that the constitutional relation of the States to the nation shall be practically restored without disturbance of the institution; and if this were done, my whole duty in this respect, under the Constitution and my oath of office, would be performed. [7]
- Swear to support the Constitution of the United States. [7]
- In May, 1858, the constitution of the republic was remodelled; and the nation assumed the political title of "The Granadian Confederacy. [7]
- Do you support the Constitution if, knowing or believing there is a right established under it which needs specific legislation, you withhold that legislation? [7]
- You must understand, the constitution gave every man a vote; therefore that vote was a vested right, and could not be taken away. [5]
- One year after the adoption of the first State constitution, the whole number of them was--what do you think? [7]
- He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and the laws. [7]
- I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. [6]
- They have insisted that whatever of small irregularities existed in getting up the Lecompton Constitution were such as happen in the settlement of all new Territories. [7]
- Then I say that to destroy a thing which is distinctly affirmed and supported by the supreme law of the land, even by a State constitution or law, is a violation of that supreme law, and there is no escape from it. [7]
- Gradually but surely, that tiresome old anecdote has sapped my strength, undermined my constitution, withered my life. [5]
- I may remark that the provision of the Constitution, put in language borrowed from Great Britain, applies only in this country, as I understand, to real or landed estate. [7]
- The Constitution provides that the President and Vice-President of the United States shall be of different States, but says nothing as to the latitude and longitude of those States. [7]
- The seceders insist that our Constitution admits of secession. [7]
- If you withhold that necessary legislation for the support of the Constitution and constitutional rights, do you not commit perjury? [7]
- The next proposition that Judge Douglas puts is this: "But upon examination it turns out that the Toombs bill never did contain a clause requiring the constitution to be submitted. [7]
- I only add that I shall be gratified exceedingly if the good people of the State shall, by their votes, ratify the new constitution. [7]
- Why, the reason that he urges against that constitution I urged against him a year before. [7]
- But Douglas says that he is unalterably opposed to the repeal of those laws because, in his view, it is a compromise of the Constitution. [7]
- I grant you that an unconstitutional act is not a law; but I do not ask and will not take your construction of the Constitution. [7]
- I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause--as cheerfully to one section as to another. [7]
- Do not think that a robust organization is any warrant of long life, nor that a frail and slight bodily constitution necessarily means scanty length of days. [6]
- We go further than that: we don't propose to disturb it where, in one instance, we think the Constitution would permit us. [7]
- It was a Territory yet, without having formed a constitution, in a very regular way, for three years. [7]
- His late joint struggle with the Republicans, against the Lecompton Constitution, involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine. [7]
- Would the Constitution stand the strain? [9]
- When I do speak I hope I may say nothing in opposition to the spirit of the Constitution, contrary to the integrity of the Union, or which will prove inimical to the liberties of the people, or to the peace of the whole country. [7]
- That has a somewhat reckless sound; but it would be palliated, if not fully justified, were we proposing, by the mere force of numbers, to deprive you of some right plainly written down in the Constitution. [7]
- But while they so expected, they gave nothing for that expectation, and they put no provision in the Constitution requiring it should be so abolished. [7]
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