Lots of czars, which are kind of extra-constitutional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Card on Obama's First 100 Days] Reference

The Party is a private body, and its internal processes are extra-constitutional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Camp: No One Is Winning This Race Without Super-Delegates] Reference

But the facts show that Van has no mysterious role or extra-constitutional powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eva Paterson: Glenn Beck's Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies and Falsehoods] Reference

Obama said he'd close this 'extra-constitutional' blight on the national character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael B. Laskoff: The Honeymoon's Over Mr. President - Now Deal with Guantanamo, Gay Rights and Health Care] Reference

We have returned to Nixon's wonderland of extra-constitutional abuses of police powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Final Acts of Ugly Desperation] Reference

There is also no need for specialized, extra-constitutional "national security courts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [We Don't Need Guantanamo Bay] Reference

He later had this extra-constitutional order validated by his self-appointed Supreme Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shuja Nawaz: As Democracy Dawns in Pakistan, Challenges Remain] Reference

I agree treaties are the law of the land, they are extra-constitutional, valid legal obligations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melinda Gopher: Misplaced Loyalties: Montana Native American Elected Leaders and Voters Silent in Health Care Debate] Reference

MR. MCCURRY: No, I'm not -- we don't condone extra-constitutional means to achieve those objectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

"A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glorious Fourth Amendment] Reference

And wasn't the rather bizarre way in which the judiciary was overthrown entirely extra-constitutional?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2008] Reference

Maybe some Republicans will argue that such extra-constitutional powers should be maintained for Pres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Americans Evenly Divided On Impeachment Of Bush, Majority For Targeting Cheney] Reference

We've been very clear that extra-constitutional means would not be the way to deal with the full circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007] Reference

For once power is seized by such extra-constitutional means, not the least fragment of liberty will survive the collapse!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limiting Presidential War Powers] Reference

"I think it would be quite obvious that the United States would not be supportive of extra-constitutional means," Rice said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankers, 10: Pakistani Citizens, -10] Reference

The cloture rule is an extra-constitutional means of giving even more power to individual senators than the Constitution does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » It’s The Constitution, Stupid] Reference

The prime minister also stated the “reasons” behind taking the extra-constitutional step of declaring an “emergency plus”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crisis In Pakistan Deepening] Reference

A reasonable middle ground might be to take it to mean that any extra-constitutional guarantee of a right shall also be recognized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Americans Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, he had forced through unconstitutional bills and taken extra-constitutional powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

Another outcome of the authoritarianism of Japanese politics is the extra-constitutional means used by the police in dealing with crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perry Legacy] Reference

If Congress refuses to fund the war and the Administration keeps it going through extra-constitutional means, we will reach a scary impasse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Grossman: Hey Democrats: Who's Your Daddy?] Reference

"The only way out of the confrontation between the judiciary and the government was apparently through force or extra-constitutional measures.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shutdown] Reference

Talking about Bangladesh, it was under the rule of an extra-constitutional military backed interim government from January 2007 to December 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changing showground of South Asia] Reference

Many think that Zelaya over-reached in his role as president and tried to force the extension of his term and powers in extra-constitutional ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Aaron Schock a Pass on Honduras and DeMint] Reference

The Continuity of Governance program encompasses national emergency plans that would trigger the takeover of the country by extra-constitutional forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Last Roundup: Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?] Reference

This new impeachment weapon would be a permanent, extra-constitutional power of Congress, a poison arrow aimed permanently at the heart of the Presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Submission By Counsel For President Clinton To The Committee] Reference

Counter-revolution will make use of both normal constitutional channels and extra-constitutional channels to try and undermine the national democratic revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayibuye - December 1997] Reference

This government having lost its focus on crucial issues should not ignore the serious consequences of the extra-constitutional measure it has finally resorted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is State Of Emergency Better Than State Of Terrorism?] Reference

It confirms what was raised in the parliamentary debate that the NP is prepared to use extra-constitutional methods in order to gain some party political advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC PRESS STATEMENT RE THE NP MANIPULATION OF THE FINANCIAL MARKETS] Reference

ICC provides an external guarantor that serious crimes will be punished, including those committed in the context of any extra-constitutional changes of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech: International Criminal Court Regional Advocacy Seminar] Reference

"It confirms what was raised in the parliamentary debate that the NP is prepared to use extra-constitutional methods in order to gain some party political advantage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Kahn also said the Constitution doesn't allow a "wholesale termination of services of Supreme Court judges," thus rendering Musharraf's action an "extra-constitutional coup.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Man in Islamabad] Reference

Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures] Reference