7 sentences with 'unconstitutional'
Example sentences and phrases with the word unconstitutional and other words derived from it.
• « The process ended with the recognition of creation as a religion. Gould protested, obfuscated. The act was declared unconstitutional. »
• « As a direct tax, it appeared to be an unconstitutional measure that deprived freeborn British subjects of their liberty, a concept they broadly defined to include various rights and privileges they enjoyed as British subjects, including the right of representation. »
• « In newspapers and pamphlets in the colonies, they published article after article setting forth the reasons why the Stamp Act was unconstitutional and urging peaceful protest. »
• « For those who had protested against the Townshend Acts for several years, the partial repeal appeared to be a great victory. For the second time, the colonists had rescued freedom from an unconstitutional parliamentary measure. »
• « Jefferson and Madison mobilised the response to the laws in the form of statements known as the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which argued that the laws were illegal and unconstitutional. »
• « However, Marshall also held that the Judiciary Act of Congress of 1789, which would have given the Supreme Court the power to grant Marbury's appeal, was unconstitutional because the Constitution did not allow cases like Marbury's to go directly to the Supreme Court. Marshall thus established the principle of judicial review, which strengthened the court by asserting its power to review (and possibly overturn) the actions of Congress and the president. Jefferson did not like it, but neither did Marbury, who received his commission. »
• « Other southerners, however, argued that the question was not whether the slaveholders would want to move to the Mexican Cession lands, but whether they could do so and still retain control of their slave property. To deny them the right to move freely with their rightful property was, they argued, unjust and unconstitutional. »