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What is "constitutionality"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
constitutionality
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
challenge
▪ The sale had been postponed in September amid court cases challenging its constitutionality and violent demonstrations by union members facing redundancy.
▪ No sooner had voters approved Prop. 209 than civil rights lawyers filed appeals challenging its constitutionality.
▪ Then they filed another appeal in the federal courts challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty.
▪ The Reagan administration challenged the constitutionality of the independent counsel law.
▪ The stumbling block is a case challenging the constitutionality of the new law.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of the 1989 law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If we consider the independence of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court has the right to determine the constitutionality of all legislation.
▪ No sooner had voters approved Prop. 209 than civil rights lawyers filed appeals challenging its constitutionality.
▪ That ruling, however, left open the question of the constitutionality of prayer that students themselves plan or arrange.
▪ The Basic Law identifies constitutionality with substantive democratic legitimacy.
▪ The decision upheld the constitutionality of two programmes by the Federal Communications Commission.
▪ The Equal Access Act was challenged in several cases, raising questions about its constitutionality as violative of the establishment clause.
▪ The provision restricting investment income was also thought to be of dubious constitutionality.
▪ Then they filed another appeal in the federal courts challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constitutionality

Constitutionality \Con`sti*tu`tion*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. - ties.

  1. The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.

  2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.
    --Burke.

    Constitutionalities, bottomless cavilings and questionings about written laws.
    --Carlyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
constitutionality

1787, "quality of being in accord with a constitution," from constitutional (adj.) + -ity.

Wiktionary
constitutionality

n. (context legal English) The status of being constitutional; of being in accord with the provisions of the appropriate constitution

Wikipedia
Constitutionality

Constitutionality is the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or guidelines set forth in the applicable constitution. When one of these (laws, procedures, or acts) directly violates the constitution, it is unconstitutional. All the rest are considered constitutional until challenged and declared otherwise.

Usage examples of "constitutionality".

The division over the constitutionality of abortion laws was more ideologically and religiously doctrinal than politically partisan.

But the constitutionality of legislation prohibiting the publication by corporations and unions in the regular course of conducting their affairs of periodicals advising their members, stockholders or customers of danger or advantage to their interest from the adoption of measures or the election to office of men espousing such measures has been declared by the Court to be open to gravest doubt.

Hence State sovereignty, and hence his doctrine that in all cases that cannot come properly before the Supreme Court of the United States for decision, each State is free to decide for itself, on which he based the right of nullification, or the State veto of acts of Congress whose constitutionality the State denies.

Benjamin F Wright, the Insular Auditor, definitely questioning the constitutionality of the Act of the Philippine Legislature creating the standing million-peso Independence Fund, suspended further payments under that Act.

The second day of the trial was spent arguing the constitutionality of the new law.

April 30, 1924, the Attorney General of the United States rendered his opinion on the question raised by the Insular Auditor as to the constitutionality of the act of the Philippine Legislature creating a standing Independence Fund.

The pretence that they are established to supply a national currency, does not save their constitutionality, for the convention has not given the General government the power nor imposed on it the duty of furnishing a national currency.