The soldier's pride in deserved promotion for distinguished services, could not induce the statesman to forego his convictions of Constitutional right.
Constitutional right is eternal--not to be sacrificed by any body of men.
The President of the United States 'a despot' for exercising a constitutional right in vetoing a bill passed by Congress!
When before has the exercise of a constitutional right justified a political friend of the President of the United States in denouncing that President as a despot and a dictator?
At once the south rejected the doctrine of popular sovereignty, and demanded, as a constitutional right, that slaves moved into a territory must be protected like other property, whether the people of the territory wish it or not.
So far as they infringe upon the constitution, or impair, in the least, a constitutional right, they are void and ought to be repealed.
But, besides its immorality, Congress has no Constitutional right to create slavery.
Is not the right of petition a constitutional right?
It is possible that before this volume is read all the women of the six Australian States will possess the full franchise by constitutional right.
It went on to lecture the people of South Carolina for seceding, and to develop in a lawyer-like manner the thesis that they had no constitutional right to do so.
That it had a constitutional right to do so cannot be disputed: as little can it be disputed that in doing so it deliberately acted against the sentiment of the country.
If equality before the law be, as Mr. Morrill has declared, a constitutional right, the judicial power of the United States reaches the same.
That whenever that acquisition is by treaty, the same constituted authorities in whom the treaty-making power is vested have a constitutional right to sanction the acquisition.
So cowed was he as to do what no President had ever done before, or has ever done since, and what no President has a constitutional right to do: he abdicated the duties of his office, and no entreaty could induce him to resume them.
An American citizen has a constitutional rightto travel freely through the whole republic and also not to be excluded therefrom.
In like manner, Christian Science practitioners have invoked the constitutional right of religious belief against the common law requiring that those offering themselves to practise medicine should be reasonably skilled in their trade.
With respect to debates, senators have a constitutional right to speak; and while they speak to the subject before the House, there is no power any where to stop them.
We had no constitutional right to treat the notes of mere private corporations as cash; and if we did, nothing would be done.
Congress had no constitutional right to appropriate the public money for such an object.
To relieve the temporary distress by recognizing the Porto Ricans as citizens, and by an extension of the Dingley tariff to Porto Rico as a matter of constitutional right, foreclosed the whole question.
The question of permanently holding the Philippines or any other conquered territory as territory is not, and cannot be made, one of constitutional right; it is one solely of national duty and of national policy.
I say that no man can deny his obligation to give the necessary legislation to support slavery in a Territory, who believes it is a constitutional right to have it there.
Now, that is precisely what Judge Douglas says, that this is a constitutional right.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constitutional right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
