nonconstitutional
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˌkɒnstɪˈtjuːʃənl/
- Formal
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no constitucional
- Certain laws may be considered nonconstitutional if they violate the principles set out in the nation's founding documents.
Examples
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For example, the Court has applied the act of state doctrine to the states as a judicially created, nonconstitutional rule that is not compelled by the Constitution (n51) and is subject to congressional modification.
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Meanwhile, the Congress, functioning both as a sitting congress and a constituent assembly, had little time or attention for nonconstitutional matters.
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The findings for leadership entry indicate that a nonconstitutional leader increases the chances of civil war but decreases the chances of violence from above.
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Instead, the Court's response was essentially to cloud the distinction between constitutional requirements and nonconstitutional protective measures.
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In addition to the FSE and FEF, certain nonconstitutional measures have been adopted in search of deficit reduction.
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The rationale Quarles gave, however, was that the Miranda rules were nonconstitutional rules subject to modification by the court.
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She reasons that the President's authority to delegate is both recognized and consistent with the broader body of (nonconstitutional) law.
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This last qualification helps explain why groups that favor judicial activism also typically favor constitutionalizing large areas of law: constitutional decisions are more difficult for legislatures to trump than nonconstitutional decisions.
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The inability to separate constitutional law from nonconstitutional moral principles does indeed create a kind of crisis for standard forms of liberal constitutionalism, but it does not disadvantage proponents of constitutional protection for gay marriage.
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The majority in Dickerson viewed these statements not as "proving that Miranda is a nonconstitutional decision" but rather that "unreasonable searches under the Fourth Amendment are different from unwarned interrogation under the Fifth Amendment."
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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9.9
Does not follow the country's highest law
That goes against the country's constitution or rules for government
Antonyms
How Constitutional
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonconstitutional = constitutional (transparent) = non + constitution + al
The adjective is a simple negation formed by productive prefix 'non-' attached to the adjective 'constitutional', so the meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
Nonconstitutional starts with non- meaning 'not' and ends with constitutional, from constitution, the name for a country's basic rules that 'set up' its government. So, something nonconstitutional is 'not allowed by' or 'not part of' those basic rules.