How to Use constitutionalism in a Sentence

constitutionalism

noun
  • At the end of the day, this comes down to originalism, constitutionalism.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • Others wanted China to move onto a path of constitutionalism and rule of law.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2025
  • But that wouldn’t look good for a government and a prime minister who professes to be overseeing a new era of constitutionalism and rule of law.
    — Yonatan Fessha, Quartz Africa, 4 Dec. 2019
  • And this is the larger theme of American constitutionalism, that what unites us is not race or religion or loyalty to a person.
    — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The initiative shows commitment to constitutionalism and respect for property rights and restoring the rule of law.
    — Misheck Mutize, Quartz Africa, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There is a long, strong strand of anti-constitutionalism in American history.
    — Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Such was the foundation of American constitutionalism and the elaborate checks and balances that defined it.
    — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
  • From constitutionalism to counter‑revolution Advertisement This was not the first time the clergy had switched sides at a critical moment.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Xi said, and should avoid Western ideas such as constitutionalism, balance of powers or judicial independence.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • So the same establishment that had once helped push a Qajar shah toward constitutionalism helped pull a Pahlavi shah back from exile and back into absolutism.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In their view, my arguments are fully reconcilable with common-good constitutionalism.
    — J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
  • His malign influence on American constitutionalism is with us still.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
  • On the other hand, the usual liberal position – living constitutionalism – is clear.
    — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
  • The new court upholds originalism, which has replaced its rival, living constitutionalism.
    — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The boundaries between these different conceptions of constitutionalism are not always perfectly clear, of course.
    — Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Our own view was that the Republicans’ point about acting in an election year was secondary to the imperative to advance constitutionalism on the Court.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The Roberts Court has hollowed out these dynamic sources of congressional constitutionalism.
    — Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Reclaiming the public schools will require a sustained movement akin to the modern pro-life movement or the effort to supplant living-constitutionalism with originalism.
    — Anthony Kinnett, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
  • American constitutionalism requires a distinctly republican virtue, and cannot do without it.
    — Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Tocqueville believed the Americans had headed off this trajectory with their localism, their culture of rights, and their constitutionalism.
    — Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Trump isn’t going back to early 19th century constitutionalism.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • But the stark tone of the speech—the broad attack on foreignness, the disregard for notions of liberty, equality, and constitutionalism—shows how that essential chauvinism isn’t far from the surface.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
  • This ought to be axiomatic to anyone with even a rudimentary conception of American constitutionalism.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • His appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is an outstanding appointment for avid constitutionalism.
    — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Few, if any, American politicians have ever succeeded as well as Webster at making constitutionalism so inspiring.
    — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But by the early seventeenth century the sovereigns of Britain, France, and elsewhere had begun to erode this medieval constitutionalism in favor of a new absolutism.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Rival theories such as purposivism, pragmatism, and living-constitutionalism empower judges to ignore and override legal texts in order to impose their own solutions to the problems of the age.
    — Ed Whelan, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Will the Right continue to promote freedom, constitutionalism, and American leadership abroad?
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Congress’s constitutionalism carries advantages over the Court’s.
    — Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Sajo is an expert in comparative constitutionalism and was involved in the drafting of the Ukrainian, Georgian and South African constitutions.
    — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 5 May 2021

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