constitution

Example Sentences

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“The disabled veterans exemption already exists in the constitution, so I don’t think Prop. 13 trumps it because they both exist together.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

So is the story of the Constitutional Convention a few years later, which produced what is now the world’s oldest constitution of a complex sovereign state, amended only 27 times.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Magyar's Tisza party won 141 of parliament's 199 seats in the April 12 polls, a comfortable two-thirds majority enabling it to change the constitution and push through key reforms.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

So, the Virginia Legislature passed the measure that went to and was approved by voters both before the election and again after the election, seemingly in line with what the state constitution requires.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Justice Albert Louis Sachs, one of the writers of South Africa’s first democratic constitution, is a resident of Clifton, South Africa, the Cape Town beach community off which the São José sank.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler