How to Use constitution in a Sentence

constitution

noun

• The state's constitution has strict rules about what tax money can be used for.
• Members of the club have drafted a new constitution.
• What is the molecular constitution of the chemical?
• The state's original constitution is on display at the museum.
• He has a robust constitution.
• Only animals with strong constitutions are able to survive the island's harsh winters.
• Connecticut’s voting laws are enshrined in the state constitution.
  — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2022
• While the welcome has been warm, Australia’s national and state leaders want the royals removed from their constitution.
  — Rod McGuirk, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• Enshrining these pro-voter policies in the state constitution would immunize them from repeal by the state legislature.
  — Joshua A. Douglas, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• Iowa residents this election cycle will consider adding a gun rights amendment to the state constitution, which would further protect gun ownership.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• In Kentucky, voters will be deciding on whether to change the state’s constitution to allow for legislators to create a school choice program.
  — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
• Should Illinois enshrine into the state constitution the right of workers to unionize and collectively bargain?
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
• If voters approve a ballot measure, funding for early childhood education will be written into the state constitution.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• New York City passed a similar measure last year that was later struck down by a state Supreme Court judge for violating the state constitution.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2022
• Much of this multiplicity is owed to the state’s previous constitution, written in 1870.
  — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
• Thus, amending the constitution is the only way to implement a program that provides funding to education outside the current public school system.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
• To thwart the constitution and the orders of the court.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2022
• The state is the first to amend its constitution to do so.
  — Allison Garfield, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2020
• The brothers need 150 seats to be able to change the constitution.
  — Bharatha Mallawarachi, Star Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• The object in question is the body of the constitution.
  — Marc Fisher, David Nakamura, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
• Hundreds of Tunisians marched in protest of the draft constitution in the days leading up to the vote.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Voters in 2015 added the new rules to the state constitution.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• The plants are now due to be mothballed, but the constitution is standing in the way.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• Trace the path where the state constitution was stashed in the Charter Oak Tree.
  — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2024
• That's because the constitution leaves that kind of police power in the hands of the states.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
• The judges have not only upheld the constitution in the past year.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• This led to a clash over how the constitution can be amended.
  — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
• Cilek says his group believes such a change would need to be made to the state constitution.
  — Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2019
• Once the results of the April 2024 election are certified, the new parts of the constitution would be in place.
  — Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
• Slavery was a big part of the debate around the constitution.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024