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单词 unconstitutional
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Definition of unconstitutional in English:

unconstitutional

adjectiveˌʌnkɒnstɪˈtjuːʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌənˌkɑnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)l
  • Not in accordance with the political constitution or with procedural rules.

    违反宪法的;不符合章程规定的

    we cannot tolerate unconstitutional action
    the Act would be declared unconstitutional in the courts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the US Supreme Court, this law would be struck down as being unconstitutional.
    • You think the president has the power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
    • Any potential law which they felt went against the Constitution was classed as unconstitutional and had to be re-drawn.
    • The Act was ruled unconstitutional by the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia last year.
    • It was only thrown out after Italy's Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional.
    • First, it held unconstitutional the long-standing rule that injury was to be presumed from the mere fact of publication.
    • Ours here ended when it was challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada and ruled unconstitutional.
    • There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination.
    • This held that nineteenth-century state legislation on the issue was unconstitutional.
    • It led to the US supreme court ruling that the segregation of buses was unconstitutional.
    • It also said that the discrimination by some local authorities could be unconstitutional.
    • She holds that the separation of church and state is also unconstitutional and has equated Social Security with cannibalism.
    • Otherwise, the Supreme Court would probably have found the measures unconstitutional.
    • The first category is oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional action by the servants of the government.
    • First of all, the first declaration that you claim is that a certain High Court Rule is unconstitutional.
    • The suit charges that the act is unconstitutional because it permits no exception to protect the health of the mother.
    • That law has since been ruled unconstitutional and overturned, and the case will resume later this year.
    • But on Friday of last week a judge found that the national executive meeting was unconstitutional and declared it void.
    • The law was later ruled unconstitutional by the Florida state Supreme Court.
    • I remember reading on the BBC news website last week that a Greek court has ruled this unconstitutional.
    Synonyms
    autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, authoritarian, absolute, absolutist, arbitrary, undemocratic, anti-democratic, uncontrolled, unaccountable, summary

Derivatives

  • unconstitutionality

  • nounˌʌnkɒnstɪtjuːʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtiˌənˌkɑnstəˌt(j)uʃəˈnælədi
    • Although five justices made up the majority that declared the death penalty to be ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment, they did not agree on the basis of their holding of unconstitutionality.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For example, one might provide for group action, whereby associations of, say, homeless people, would be able to challenge government housing policies on grounds of unconstitutionality.
      • Watkins is wrong about the unconstitutionality of the Federalists' sedition act because he uncritically adopts Madison and Jefferson's 1798 reading of the First Amendment.
      • Such judicial power has been interpreted to include the power to review and invalidate, based on unconstitutionality, both federal and state actions.
      • It is part of dealing procedurally, if one likes, on an interlocutory basis with the problem of unconstitutionality before it is known to be unconstitutional.
  • unconstitutionally

  • adverbˌʌnkɒnstiːˈtjuːʃ(ə)nəliˌənˌkɑnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)li
    • The Court found that this unconstitutionally favored voters in sparsely populated counties over heavily populated counties, such as Cook County.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The White House claims the Congressional agency is overstepping its bounds and unconstitutionally interfering with the functioning of the executive branch.
      • The second defect was that the language of the act was unconstitutionally vague, and could make illegal much more commonly employed types of second trimester abortions.
      • In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality.
      • He concluded: ‘My clients were treated illegally and unconstitutionally.’

Definition of unconstitutional in US English:

unconstitutional

adjectiveˌənˌkɑnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌənˌkänstəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n(ə)l
  • Not in accordance with a political constitution, especially the US Constitution, or with procedural rules.

    违反宪法的;不符合章程规定的

    we cannot tolerate unconstitutional action
    the Act would be declared unconstitutional in the courts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That law has since been ruled unconstitutional and overturned, and the case will resume later this year.
    • The suit charges that the act is unconstitutional because it permits no exception to protect the health of the mother.
    • First, it held unconstitutional the long-standing rule that injury was to be presumed from the mere fact of publication.
    • Any potential law which they felt went against the Constitution was classed as unconstitutional and had to be re-drawn.
    • Ours here ended when it was challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada and ruled unconstitutional.
    • It led to the US supreme court ruling that the segregation of buses was unconstitutional.
    • First of all, the first declaration that you claim is that a certain High Court Rule is unconstitutional.
    • This held that nineteenth-century state legislation on the issue was unconstitutional.
    • In the US Supreme Court, this law would be struck down as being unconstitutional.
    • The law was later ruled unconstitutional by the Florida state Supreme Court.
    • The Act was ruled unconstitutional by the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia last year.
    • Otherwise, the Supreme Court would probably have found the measures unconstitutional.
    • I remember reading on the BBC news website last week that a Greek court has ruled this unconstitutional.
    • There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination.
    • She holds that the separation of church and state is also unconstitutional and has equated Social Security with cannibalism.
    • It also said that the discrimination by some local authorities could be unconstitutional.
    • It was only thrown out after Italy's Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional.
    • The first category is oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional action by the servants of the government.
    • You think the president has the power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
    • But on Friday of last week a judge found that the national executive meeting was unconstitutional and declared it void.
    Synonyms
    autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, authoritarian, absolute, absolutist, arbitrary, undemocratic, anti-democratic, uncontrolled, unaccountable, summary
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