This ˜self-constitution™ account builds on the idea that we look outward to determine our beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Knowledge] Reference

The study focused on a process of self-constitution of a new community of a squatter area called Winnie Mandela.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACCELERATING THE PACE OF CHANGE] Reference

However, on the self-constitution view mental states are in fact dynamically related to first-person reflection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Knowledge] Reference

And indeed that a crisis "lies buried within" any self-constitution or event was already conceded by Schelling in the 1813.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference

The objection to this idea, that this process yields a new belief rather than revealing a pre-existing belief, poses no difficulty for the self-constitution view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Knowledge] Reference

If "I am I" is one aggravated instance of the ontological and linguistic problem alike, in another sense it is also — in the circularity of its self-constitution — the escape clause: the egress into immanent contingency, into potentiality as an ontological existent rather than a mere alternative to what is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

Unwise laws, equally with irregularities at elections, are in periods of great excitement the occasional incidents of even the freest and best political institutions; but all experience demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self-constitution exists in the completest form, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort to revolution is totally out of place, inasmuch as existing legal institutions afford more prompt and efficacious means for the redress of wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address] Reference