Hobbes made the social contract a justification for Royal absolutism, and Locke, with a Whig ideal of constitutional government, enlarged on the right of a people to change its form of government, and justified the Revolution of 1688.
But always the forcible resistance, when successful, has been made not by revolutionaries but by the strong champions of constitutional government.
Constitutional government in the United States began, in its national phase, with the inauguration of Washington, but the experiment was for a long time a doubtful one.
With the establishment of democracy in more than one-half of the provinces, constitutional government was to be inaugurated and the expedient of Party dictatorship dispensed with.
Every encroachment, great or small, is important enough to awaken the attention of those who are intrusted with the preservation of a constitutional government.
We have a great, popular, constitutional government, guarded by law and by judicature, and defended by the affections of the whole people.
We have a constitutional government, about the powers, and limitations, and uses of which there is a vast amount of differences of belief.
Since the early 1980s financial problems, caused by war expenditures and damage to oil export facilities by Iran, have led the government to implement austerity measures and to reschedule foreign debt payments.
The statesmanship he displayed, the intelligent and liberal conception of constitutional government, and the needs and aspirations of his people, are at variance with the allegation that the Filipinos were unfit for self-government.
Opposition to rule, without the consent of the governed, has been the shibboleth with which liberty has rallied the votaries of constitutional government in all its reforms.
Over the past 20 years the tourist industry has grown rapidly, creating a construction boom for new hotels and the expansion of older ones.
Gains in agricultural production (on the strength of good coffee and banana crops) and in construction, were partially offset by lower rates of growth for industry.
He was a thorough Anglo-Corsican, and perfectly understood the working of a constitutional government.
Ghana opted for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) program in 2002.
The necessity for education in a constitutional government he saw clearly.
Though the English first developed regulated or constitutional government, they themselves have no single written constitution.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constitutional government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
