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

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Board era, they ask, why and how do race and racism continue to play a constitutive role in America?

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2021

Reason is not, according to Spinoza, a constitutive power in man's life; it is a regulative principle.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph