A good way of exercising is to constitutionalize. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The rally, located in the Plaza Murillo, marked the end of over two years of meetings, conflicts and mobilizations to, as President Evo Morales often says in speeches, "constitutionalize" much-needed changes. From Wordnik.com. Reference
McConnell is trying to constitutionalize the Senate rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional”] Reference
I support a constitutional amendment that would constitutionalize the. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
And here the “cause” is to constitutionalize a policy preference. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel:] Reference
The plaintiffs are basically asking to constitutionalize stare decisis. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Preview of the Stop the Beach Renourishment Case] Reference
The Dormant Commerce Clause does not constitutionalize competitive bidding. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » AZ Boycott and the Constitution:] Reference
Q: The more we move to constitutionalize, the more we have problems of entanglement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Yet,you are now poised to constitutionalize discrimination against a particular class of people. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference
Nelson and (to a lesser extent) Graber believe that section 5 was an effort to constitutionalize that principle. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
It was not until the rise of partisanship that people started coming up with ways to constitutionalize their party positions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Blatant Unconstitutionality Started Early] Reference
Environmentalists might make gains at a convention by convincing us to constitutionalize positive rights to clean air and clean water. From Wordnik.com. [New York Needs a Constitutional Convention] Reference
When Madison and others fashioned the Bill of Rights, they did not merely constitutionalize -- make fundamental -- the right to bear arms. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
First of all, if you constitutionalize the budgeting process, and no one's sure what it all means, you're going to wind up having courts making decisions about budgets. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks To American Council On Education] Reference
The Green Party becomes the latest bunch to attempt to constitutionalize a policy preference by calling for clean air and soil guarantees to be enshrined in the Charter. From Wordnik.com. [The Charter Trap] Reference
But, even if the Liberals do not out-flank the Conservatives in McDonald, the next case, or perhaps the case after that, could open the box and constitutionalize a health care. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » How I’d Approach the Privileges or Immunities Issue in McDonald] Reference
You must be awfully confident of your grasp of macroeconomics to think we should constitutionalize a tool deficit spending that many economists believe is absolutely critical to combat recessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT] Reference
You must be awfully confident of your grasp of macroeconomics to think we should constitutionalize a tool (deficit spending) that many economists believe is absolutely critical to combat recessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT] Reference
It makes little sense to claim that the 14th was merely intended to constitutionalize the CRA, because if so, they could have just used the words of the CRA, instead of saying something entirely different. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Justice Stevens Sees Himself as a “Judicial Conservative”] Reference
Did Radicals have to compromise their principles to Conservatives (Benedict), or did Republicans constitutionalize the fundamental free labor principles underlying the anti-slavery crusade of the 1850s (Foner). From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
The people who are so sure of themselves that they want to constitutionalize their views, or those who think that Keynes may have been on to something to some extent in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, andMoney?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT] Reference
You guys are trying to constitutionalize a matter of statutory/common law, in the sense that whether the state has the constitutional right to ban threats hinges on whether it has chosen to criminalize the underlying activity. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Kansas Now Allows Threat of Deadly Force in Self-Defense, and Not Just Use of Such Force] Reference
To see where the references to “natural” and “property” originate consider the rights protected from state discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which the Privileges or Immunities Clause was intended, in part, to constitutionalize. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Predicting McDonald] Reference
"But we need to constitutionalize these changes," he continued. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Fourteenth Amendment was intended to constitutionalize, was amended to remove a general ban on discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com - Latest Articles] Reference
What is lacking is a mechanism to constitutionalize the talks, where all formulae and proposals can be discussed and debatedâ€. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
"To suddenly constitutionalize this area would short-circuit what looks to be a prompt and considered legislative response," Roberts said. From Wordnik.com. [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference
If the people (from whom governing and lawmaking power ultimately flows) explicitly constitutionalize discrimination, such discrimination is legal, valid and enforceable. From Wordnik.com. [Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union] Reference
Nevertheless, Turkey has a dynamic and active civil society that will sooner or later force politicians to constitutionalize principles such as the rule of law and the right of free speech, hopes Gürsoy. From Wordnik.com. [Eurozine articles] Reference
Like I said, you’re trying to constitutionalize stare decisis. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Preview of the Stop the Beach Renourishment Case] Reference
Well, if they’re going to constitutionalize policy views anyway, the’re nothing wrong with making sure they constitutionalize the right ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel:] Reference
But courts shouldn’t constitutionalize or proclaim as universally correct the particular distinctions that their members of the moment happen to prefer. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws] Reference
I’m not aware of any authority which says that the Ninth Amendment was understood to constitutionalize the entire common law as it existed at the Founding. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?] Reference
DP’s right that it’s unpleasant and somewhat uncivilized, and that even prisoners probably deserve better, but to constitutionalize those feelings is the mistake, I think. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Cruel and Unusual Punishment:] Reference
In other words, constitutionalize redistribution of wealth. ". From Wordnik.com. [Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire] Reference
"by Gerald Benjamin and Mario Cuomo, (op-ed, July 10) sounds promising until the phrase" constitutionalize positive rights to clean air and water "popped up. From Wordnik.com. [A Good Constitution, Not Just a New One] Reference
Let’s constitutionalize morestuff!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » My Detroit Free Press op ed on Sotomayor and Didden:] Reference
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