Constitutional

Definition: Constitutional

Constitutional

Adjective

1. Of or relating to a constitution; "constitutional amendments".

2. Of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup; "constitutional walk".

3. Sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under a constitution; "the constitutional right of free speech"; "constitutional government"; "constitutional guarantees".

4. Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth".

5. Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup).

Noun

1. A regular walk taken as a form of exercise.

Date "constitutional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references)

Specialty Definition: Constitutional

Domain	Definition
Health	1. affecting the whole constitution of the body; not local. 2. pertaining to the constitution. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dueness	Privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.
Government	Thearchy, theocracy, dinarchy; duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy; duumvirate; triumvirate; autocracy, autonomy; limited monarchy; constitutional government, constitutional monarchy; home rule; representative government; monocracy, pantisocracy.
	Democracy, republicanism; communism, statism, state socialism; socialism; conservatism, toryism; liberalism, whigism; theocracy; constitutional monarchy.
Journey	Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
Legality	Adjective: legal, legitimate; according to law; vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized; lawful; (permitted); statutable, statutory; legislatorial, legislative; regulatory, regulated.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville Funny (1987)
Song Titles	Constitutional Peasant (performing artist: Monty Python)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	American Constitutional Law (University Textbook Series) (reference) American Indians, Time, and the Law: Native Societies in a Modern Constitutional Democracy (reference) Constitutional Law (Hornbook Series and Other Textbooks) (reference) Constitutional Law in a Nutshell (4th Ed) (Nutshell Series) (reference) Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Constitutional Law And Liberty (reference) East European Case Reporter Of Constitutional Law (reference) International Journal Of Constitutional Law (reference) State Constitutional Law Bulletin (reference) University Of Pennsylvania Journal Of Constitutional Law (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Just the Facts: United States Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The constitutional amendment!. Credit: Library of Congress.		Gov. James P. Coleman of Mississippi, as he appeared before the Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, considering proposed civil rights legislation] / United Press photo. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Hawaii's Constitutional Convention opens April 4 in Honolulu armory, with 63 delegates gathered to write a constitution for Hawaii pending Senate approval of statehood for the territory. Credit: Library of Congress.		President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge, and Gov. Albert C. Ritchie with participants in pageant portraying the Constitutional Convention of 1786, including Miss Natalie Hammond as Mrs. John Hammond, and George Forbes as George Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Edward Gibbon	Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Walter Bagehot	A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Amendment to US Constitution	1795-1992	And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (reference)
Marbury v. Madison	1803	If the legislature should change that rule, and declare one witness, or a confession out of court, sufficient for conviction, must the constitutional principle yield to the legislative act? (reference)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Miranda v. Arizona	1966	In each of these cases, the statements were obtained under circumstances that did not meet constitutional standards for protection of the privilege against self-incrimination. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Principles wither and grow pale in your constitutional cave.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	On Sundays Stephen with his father and his granduncle took their constitutional.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Jehovah's Witnesses are appealing this ruling in the Constitutional Court. (references)
		A 1950's ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court outlawed a neo-Nazi and a Communist party. (references)
		Four other officials were not sentenced due to constitutional writs of protection ("amparos"). (references)
Children	Costa Rica	On May 11, the Constitutional Court required the Government to pay the PANI these revenues. (references)
	Costa Rica	In June the Constitutional Court ordered the Government to pay the PANI funds from the 7 percent earmark. (references)
	Spain	In 1994 the Constitutional Court held that sterilization of the mentally infirm does not constitute a violation of the Constitution. (references)
Civil Liberties	Austria	In April the Constitutional Court upheld the Education Ministry's decision. (references)
	Germany	A decision was pending before the Federal Constitutional Court at year's end. (references)
	Seychelles	A judge ruled later that the matter would be heard in the Constitutional Court. (references)
Discrimination	Micronesia	Government enforcement of these constitutional provisions is weak. (references)
	Malaysia	On August 1, the Parliament unanimously approved a Constitutional amendment barring discrimination on the basis of sex. (references)
	Solomon Islands	Despite constitutional and legal protections, women remain the victims of discrimination in this tradition-based society. (references)
Economic History	Panama	Type: Constitutional democracy. (references)
	Lesotho	Type: Modified constitutional monarchy. (references)
	Honduras	Type: Democratic constitutional republic. (references)
Human Rights	Hungary	The retirement age of the Constitutional Court judges is 70 years. (references)
	Kuwait	The Amir has the constitutional power to pardon or commute all sentences. (references)
	Armenia	Such constitutional revisions must pass both Parliament and a national referendum. (references)
Indigenous People	Malaysia	Indigenous people (that is, the descendants of the original inhabitants of peninsular region of the country and the Borneo states) generally enjoy the same constitutional rights as the rest of the population. (references)
	Philippines	The 1997 Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act, which was intended to implement constitutional provisions to protect indigenous people, established a National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP), which is staffed by tribal members empowered to award certificates of title to lands claimed by over 12 million indigenous people in the country. (references)
	Australia	The mandate of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, created by Parliament in 1991, expired in 2000. The Council's final report was released in December 2000, and it included recommendations that the federal and state governments set performance benchmarks and timelines for overcoming Aboriginal disadvantage and enact legislation to further the principles of legislation; that Parliament prepare legislation providing for a referendum on deleting a constitutional amendment on racial criteria for voting; and that the Constitution be amended to make racial discrimination unlawful. (references)
Minorities	Croatia	Some observers, including ethnic Serb leaders, criticized the apparent haste and secrecy with which the constitutional law was passed. (references)
	Colombia	Afro-Colombians are entitled to all constitutional rights and protections; however, they traditionally have suffered from discrimination. (references)
	Estonia	All residents, whether or not they are citizens, can complain directly to the State Court about alleged violations of human or constitutional rights. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	There also is a constitutional court. (references)
	Cambodia	Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. (references)
	Norway	Norway is a constitutional hereditary monarchy. (references)
Political Rights	Slovak Republic	One ethnic Hungarian sits on the Constitutional Court. (references)
	Ukraine	The 18-member Constitutional Court has 2 female members. (references)
	Guatemala	Women hold two seats on the Supreme Court and one on the Constitutional Court. (references)
Trade	Moldova	However, already in may the constitutional court invalidated this contract on grounds that the Government lacked the necessary authority to conclude such an agreement. (references)
Travel	Portugal	Health care in Portugal is a constitutional right, which means that the public health facilities are overburdened, and, therefore, not able to offer the level of service considered normal in the United States. (references)
Women	Switzerland	Although mandated by a constitutional amendment in 1945, no federal law on maternity insurance exists. (references)
Worker Rights	Guatemala	After appeals by DYMEL, the verdict was upheld by the Constitutional Court in May. (references)
	Costa Rica	On May 31, a Constitutional Court decree defined the judicial framework for collective bargaining in the public sector. (references)
	Luxembourg	All workers have the constitutional right to associate freely and choose their representatives, and they exercise this right in practice. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Elizabeth Dole	First of all, let me say I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment to the Constitution and protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. In fact, I believe you're looking at the first woman to ever address the NRA.
Rush Limbaugh	That amendment process was used after the Civil War to address or correct issues that could not be revolved during the Constitutional Convention.
Senator Paul Sarbanes	Well, we considered that very carefully, and we went outside and got some opinions from expert constitutional scholars who all said they thought what we were doing was pass muster. So we think we are OK in terms of passing muster on that question.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Measures have also been taken for the prosecution of offenders, and Congress may be assured that nothing within constitutional and legal limits which may depend upon me shall be wanting to assert and maintain the just authority of the laws.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	If in the course of your observations or inquiries they should appear to need any aid within the limits of our constitutional powers, your sense of their importance is a sufficient assurance they will occupy your attention.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	According to this plain constitutional provision, the claim of the bank can never be paid without an appropriation by act of Congress.
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	I believe that it stands like any other admitted right, and that the States where it exists are entitled to efficient remedies to enforce the constitutional provisions.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	All profess to be content in the Union if all constitutional rights can be maintained.
Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929	The expression of the popular will in favor of maintaining our constitutional guarantees was overwhelming and decisive.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	We should move toward a greater measure of local self-government consistent with the constitutional status of the District.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Legislation, resting on the fullest constitutional authority of the Federal Government, to prohibit racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Today marks my first State of the Union address to you, a constitutional duty as old as our Republic itself.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Whatever your view on that, we all must concede we don't need a constitutional amendment, we need action.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	95.86%	2,888	3,217
Noun (proper)	4.08%	123	28,925
Noun (singular)	0.07%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	3,013	N/A

Language		Translations for "constitutional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ushtrime fizike, trupor (bodily, Corporal, corporeal, fleshly, fleshy, physical), organik (organic), kushtetor. (various references)

Arabic		‏نزهة لغرض صحي, ‏سير على الأقدام, ‏صحي (healthful, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, wholesome), ‏أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), ‏دستوري (organic, statutory), ‏بنيوي (structural). (various references)

Bulgarian		конституционен. (various references)

Chinese		宪法 (Constitution, Constitutionally). (various references)

Czech		procházka (jaunt, ramble, saunter, stroll, walk, wander), konstituèní, ústavní. (various references)

Danish		konstitutionel. (various references)

Dutch		constitutioneel. (various references)

Esperanto		konstitucia. (various references)

Finnish		perustuslaillinen. (various references)

French		constitutionnel. (various references)

German		konstitutionell, verfassungsmäßig (constitutionally). (various references)

Greek		σωματικόσ (able bodied, bodily, corporeal, physical, somatic), συγγενής (akin, associated, relative, relative of), συνταγματικόσ (constituent), γενικός (eneral, general, overall), ιδιοσυστατικόσ, ιδιοσυστατικός (constitutive), περίπατοσ (perambulation, promenade, ramble, saunter, stroll, walk, walking), υγιεινόσ περίπατοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		חוקתי. (various references)

Hungarian		szervi (organic), alkotmányos. (various references)

Italian		costituzionale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		合憲的 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うけ�"てき. (various references)

Korean		체질상. (various references)

Manx		veih'n ghooghys, reeaghtagh, dy reeaghtagh, callinagh (bodily, corporal, physical), bunraghtoil. (various references)

Pig Latin		onstitutionalcay

Derivations
	Words beginning with "constitutional": constitutionalism, constitutionalisms, constitutionalist, constitutionalists, constitutionalities, constitutionality, constitutionalization, constitutionalizations, constitutionalize, constitutionalized, constitutionalizes, constitutionalizing, constitutionally, constitutionals. (additional references)
	Words ending with "constitutional": nonconstitutional, unconstitutional. (additional references)
	Words containing "constitutional": unconstitutionalities, unconstitutionality, unconstitutionally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Constitutional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: constitucional, constituional, constitutinal, Constitutionel, constitutionelle, constitutionnel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "constitutional" (pronounced kÄ'nstutuw"shunul)
13	k Ä' n s t u t uw" sh u n u l	unconstitutional.
11	-n s t u t uw" sh u n u l	institutional.
5	-sh u n u l	aberrational, additional, binational, coeducational, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, conventional, conversational, correctional, denominational, depositional, devotional, dimensional, directional, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sectional, sensational, situational, supranational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vocational.
4	-u n u l	abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal.
3	-n u l	adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Expressions using "constitutional": constitutional amendment ♦ constitutional charter ♦ constitutional Convention ♦ constitutional court ♦ constitutional formula ♦ constitutional government ♦ constitutional law ♦ constitutional monarchy ♦ constitutional right ♦ constitutional rights ♦ constitutional state ♦ constitutional stress ♦ constitutional Union Party ♦ endangering constitutional order ♦ federal constitutional court ♦ go for a constitutional. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "constitutional": constitutional-legal.
	Ending with "constitutional": anti-constitutional, extra-constitutional.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
constitutional amendment	160	constitutional	6
constitutional law	112	constitutional law outline	6
constitutional convention	104	amendment constitutional us	5
constitutional right	42	atlanta constitutional newspaper	5
constitutional monarchy	33	constitutional review richard scully	5
atlanta constitutional journal	28	constitutional lawyer	5
center constitutional right	25	constitutional court of south africa	5
constitutional delay growth	17	californias constitutional officer	5
atlanta constitutional	16	constitutional court	5
constitutional study	14	constitutional hall	5
ammendments constitutional	13	constitutional pledge right teacher	5
constitutional foundation right	11	constitutional isomers	5
constitutional privacy right	10	attorney constitutional dixon illinois law	5
act constitutional	10	constitutional power president	5
constitutional democracy	7	constitutional european law	4
constitutional republic	7	constitutional making process	4
constitutional party	7	constitutional reform	4
constitutional issue	6	constitutional prudential standing	4
amendment constitutional texas	6	center constitutional human law right	4
constitutional government	6	constitutional debate pledge right teacher	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-t-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: constitution, consultation, inoculations, inosculation.
	-3 letters: cottontails, inoculation, instinctual.
	-4 letters: anilinctus, clintonias, coalitions, consultant, cottontail, incautions, inoculants, insolation, insouciant, insulation, osculation, outstation, solicitant, sonication, totalistic.
	-5 letters: citations, clintonia, coalition, coitional, conations, continual, continuos, contusion, countians, inactions, incaution, incitants, inclusion, inoculant, isolation, locations, locutions, lunations, noncoital, nonsocial, notations, nutations, onanistic, siltation, situation, suctional, tuitional.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-t-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: constitutionals.
	+2 letters: constitutionally, unconstitutional.
	+3 letters: constitutionalism, constitutionalist, constitutionality, constitutionalize, nonconstitutional.
	+4 letters: constitutionalisms, constitutionalists, constitutionalized, constitutionalizes, unconstitutionally.
	+5 letters: constitutionalities, constitutionalizing, counterretaliations, unconstitutionality.
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Constitutional

Definition: Constitutional

Constitutional

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Constitutional

Synonyms: Constitutional

Synonyms within Context: Constitutional

Dueness

Government

Journey

Legality

Crosswords: Constitutional

Modern Usage: Constitutional

Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Constitutional

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Image Slideshow: Constitutional

Illustrations:Constitutional

Photo Album: Constitutional

Familiar Quotations: Constitutional

Edward Gibbon

Walter Bagehot

Historic Usage: Constitutional

Amendment to US Constitution

Marbury v. Madison

Winston S. Churchill

Miranda v. Arizona

Use in Literature: Constitutional

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Constitutional

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Constitutional

Elizabeth Dole

Rush Limbaugh

Senator Paul Sarbanes

Speeches: Constitutional

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Jackson

Franklin Pierce

Abraham Lincoln

Calvin Coolidge

Harry S. Truman

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ronald Reagan

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Constitutional

Expressions: Constitutional

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Constitutional

Modern Translation: Constitutional

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Illustrations:
Constitutional