constitutive

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It’s how Americans think about the texts that are constitutive of them.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.

From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023

Rather than seeing federal Indian policy as a constitutive feature of the emerging administrative state, “Indigenous Continent” discounts it, strangely suggesting that “reservations were a sign of American weakness, not strength.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

In their view, logic is a constitutive norm of reasoning—that is, logic constitutes what reasoning is.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

"How does it happen," Dewey asks, "that the absolute constitutive and intuitive Thought does such a poor and bungling job that it requires a finite discursive activity to patch up its products?"

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas