Wiktionary
adv. In a manner or to an extent that is unconstitutional.
WordNet
adv. in an unconstitutional manner; "the president acted unconstitutionally" [ant: constitutionally]
Usage examples of "unconstitutionally".
Defined as a condition of enforced servitude by which the servitor is compelled to labor in liquidation of some debt or obligation, either real or pretended, against his will, peonage was found to have been unconstitutionally sanctioned by an Alabama statute, directed at defaulting sharecroppers, which imposed a criminal liability and subjected to imprisonment farm workers or tenants who abandoned their employment, breached their contracts, and exercised their legal right to enter into employment of a similar nature with another person.
Nor is a railroad bridge company unconstitutionally deprived of its property when, in the absence of proof that the addition will not yield a reasonable return, it is ordered to widen its bridge by inclusion of a pathway for pedestrians and a roadway for vehicles.
Likewise a levy upon all lands within a drainage district of a tax of twenty-five cents per acre to defray preliminary expenses does not unconstitutionally take the property of landowners within that district who may not be benefited by the completed drainage plans.
Ten Commandments tablets as unconstitutionally making the viewer think that they are an open Bible in disguise.
Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the issue of whether the Florida Supreme Court acted unconstitutionally when it ordered Harris to include manual recounts submitted after the statutory deadline.
MR CHAIRMAN:--Some if not all the gentlemen on the other side of the House who have addressed the committee within the last two days have spoken rather complainingly, if I have rightly understood them, of the vote given a week or ten days ago declaring that the war with Mexico was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President.
Whigs here, vote, on the record, that the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President.
Ashmun of Massachusetts, in which he declared that the Mexican War was unnecessary and unconstitutionally commenced by the President -my recollection is that Mr.