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Because as we have seen in Constitutions post-US, governments have included health care as aright.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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I guess the measure of all Constitutions is the US Constitution?
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The document thus drawn up, which has come down to us known as the Constitutions of Clarendon, records in its opening paragraph the fact and form of this agreement and the names of the consenting bishops.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888
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At length he gave way, for that time, and the ancient customs (which included what the King had demanded in vain) were stated in writing, and were signed and sealed by the chief of the clergy, and were called the Constitutions of Clarendon.
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In short, the Constitutions are a codification of the ancient customs on all those points where conflict was likely to arise between the old ideas of the Anglo-Norman State and the new ideas of the Hildebrandine Church.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888
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The first act upon the roll recalls the Constitutions of Clarendon and the famous quarrel between Becket and the Crown.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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At length he gave way, for that time, and the ancient customs (which included what the King had demanded in vain) were stated in writing, and were signed and sealed by the chief of the clergy, and were called the Constitutions of Clarendon.
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At length he gave way, for that time, and the ancient customs (which included what the King had demanded in vain) were stated in writing, and were signed and sealed by the chief of the clergy, and were called the Constitutions of Clarendon.
A Child's History of England Charles Dickens 1841
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Strike guidelines in internal union documents, such as Constitutions and by-laws, not only explained the benefit dispersal process, but also tied the system to particular behavior for worthy striking men.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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We love to talk and dream about it and even write "Constitutions" to support it, but this is like getting so carried away by a brain-dead television sitcom that you think it's actually happening.
Will species extinction be the scientific effect of elitist greed? 2007
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