constitutional

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• WordNet 3.6
  • adj constitutional sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government "the constitutional right of free speech","constitutional government","constitutional guarantees"
  • adj constitutional constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
  • adj constitutional existing as an essential constituent or characteristic "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity","a constitutional inability to tell the truth"
  • adj constitutional of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup "constitutional walk"
  • n constitutional a regular walk taken as a form of exercise
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• Interesting fact: In 1850, Michigan's state constitution included the following line: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state." This inadvertently legalized slavery as an appropriate punishment for crime. It wasn't until 1963 that the grammar was fixed to outlaw slavery. The change required shifting the comma following "servitude" to the position after "slavery."
• • n Constitutional A walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution. "The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads."
  • Constitutional Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.
  • Constitutional For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk.
  • Constitutional In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.
  • Constitutional Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.
  • Constitutional Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis. "The anient constitutional traditions of the state."
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• Interesting fact: The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with the prohibition of alcohol.
• • constitutional Pertaining to or inherent in the constitution (of a person or thing); springing from or due to the constitution or composition: as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or apathy.
  • constitutional Beneficial to, or designed to benefit, the physical constitution: as, a constitutional walk.
  • constitutional Forming a part of, authorized by, or consistent with the constitution or fundamental organic law of a nation or state. In English law the question whether an act is constitutional turns on its consistency with the spirit and usages of the national polity, and an innovation departing from that standard is not necessarily void. In the United States the question turns on consistency or conformity with the written constitution, and an act in contravention of that is void.
  • constitutional Having the power of, or existing by virtue of and subject to, a constitution or fundamental organic law: as, a constitutional government.
  • constitutional Relating to, concerned with, or arising from a constitution.
  • constitutional A body of delegates meeting under authority of Congress to frame a constitution of government for a new State; or such a body convened by a State legislature, in the prescribed manner. to revise the existing constitution of the State.
  • n constitutional [Short for constitutional walk or exercise. See I., 2.] Exercise by walking, for the benefit of health.
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• Interesting fact: The US federal income tax was first enacted in 1862 to support the Union's Civil War effort. It was eliminated in 1872, revived in 1894 then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the US tax system.
• • adj Constitutional inherent in the natural frame: natural: agreeable to the constitution or frame of government: essential: legal: of a sovereign who rules subject to fixed laws
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• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  

  “Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.”
• John Adams

  

  “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  

  “As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.”
• William O. Douglas

  

  “The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”
• Joseph Addison

  

  “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
• Helen Keller

  

  “Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

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