The pressure on the king was found in this: that under duress he had promised a written constitution.
Bad business, this promising a written Constitution--The deluge breaks.
To some extent it partook of the nature of a written constitution.
The Bill of Rights was therefore, strictly speaking, a piece of written constitution; it was a constitution as far as it went.
Sidenote: Germs of the idea of a written constitution.
A written constitution, with a precise and well-defined mode of operation, had thus succeeded to the vague and indefinite, but ample, powers of the earlier government.
It was formed by a written constitution, yet it was, strictly speaking, scarcely a government.
Strict construction exhibits the vice of a written Constitution--the impossibility of growth or even continued life within the bonds of the written word.
Great Britain, the mother country, had never possessed a written constitution, or frame of government; but the colonies were planted under written charters.
The Senate has no such large powers; it is not “omnipotent,” but under the constraint of a written Constitution.
England has no written constitution; certain other countries have had and have now ideal written constitutions.
England, without a written constitution, is almost as free a government as ours.
It is our institutional law which, flowing like our blood through the written Constitution, gives that instrument vitality and power of development.
All power in either case lies ultimately in the voters, whether through the ballot and their ability to defeat at the polls alone, or through this plus a written constitution.
In the latter case, it would be a change to what has never been forbidden by the American written Constitution, but to what is now forbidden by the un-written Constitution.
From this the British Isles might come to have a "written constitution" in the same sense that the Constitutions of the United States, Canada, and Australia are written.
Write briefly telling the advantages of a written constitution.
Those Pilgrim Fathers drew up an agreement which was the first attempt at a written constitution in the New World.
Knighthood was not, however, membership in an association with officers and a written constitution.
The appeal to the people to aid in the freeing of their country from foreign oppression, and the idea of their participation in a government based upon a written constitution, had produced widespread discontent with the old absolute monarchy.
Such questions were of the nature of those arising under a written Constitution.
The ever-increasing number of our States, each with a body of law not exactly like that of any other, and each with a written Constitution which is its supreme law, requires a court of last resort in each.
It was from an unwillingness to commit themselves to such a principle that the people of Connecticut and Rhode Island preferred for many years to be governed in the old way by their legislatures, without a written constitution.
What has the form of law is not law, in a country governed by a written constitution, unless it is consistent with all which that instrument provides.
There is grave reason to doubt whether, prior to the arrival in Pennsylvania of Henry Melchior Muehlenberg, any of the German Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania had a well-developed, clearly defined, written constitution.
But nowritten constitution is now known in Tulpehocken earlier than that introduced by Muehlenberg.
Then there was no written constitution at Philadelphia until 1762, so far as any known evidence shows.
The Connecticut Colony, proper, comprising Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor, adopted a written constitution in which it was agreed to give to all freemen the right to vote.
These privileges were afterward (1621) embodied in a written constitution--the first of the kind in America.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "written constitution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
