Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with or make subject to a constitution.
- transitive verb To incorporate into or sanction under a constitution.
- transitive verb To treat (an inappropriate matter) as being subject to constitutional law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take a walk for health and exercise. In the English universities, where this term originated, the usual time for constitutionalizing is between 2 and 4 o'clock
p. m.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To incorporate into a
constitution - verb To provide with a constitution
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb provide with a constitution, as of a country
- verb take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal
- verb incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional
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Examples
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It was a company, initially isolated in the Ozarks, in which worker expectations and executive decisions were based not on an effort to "constitutionalize" the world of work, but to make it a site of sociability, evangelical self-sacrifice, patriarchal authority, and visceral hostility to unions and to government regulation of wages or work practices.
Nelson Lichtenstein: This Labor Day, Is the World of Work a More Secure and Lawful Place? 2009
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Even more important, the New Deal and the new unions that it encouraged sought to "constitutionalize" work in the nation's industrial economy, creating a structure of collective bargaining that not only boosted wages, but which created a system of industrial jurisprudence that mimicked the lawyers, courts, and judges which governed citizenship rights in the larger community.
Nelson Lichtenstein: This Labor Day, Is the World of Work a More Secure and Lawful Place? 2009
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The rally, located in the Plaza Murillo, marked the end of over two years of meetings, conflicts and mobilizations to, as President Evo Morales often says in speeches, "constitutionalize" much-needed changes.
unknown title 2009
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The rally, located in the Plaza Murillo, marked the end of over two years of meetings, conflicts and mobilizations to, as President Evo Morales often says in speeches, "constitutionalize" much-needed changes.
MRZine.org 2009
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Q: The more we move to constitutionalize, the more we have problems of entanglement.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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You guys are trying to constitutionalize a matter of statutory/common law, in the sense that whether the state has the constitutional right to ban threats hinges on whether it has chosen to criminalize the underlying activity.
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The people who are so sure of themselves that they want to constitutionalize their views, or those who think that Keynes may have been on to something to some extent in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, andMoney?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT 2010
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The Dormant Commerce Clause does not constitutionalize competitive bidding.
The Volokh Conspiracy » AZ Boycott and the Constitution: 2010
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You must be awfully confident of your grasp of macroeconomics to think we should constitutionalize a tool (deficit spending) that many economists believe is absolutely critical to combat recessions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT 2010
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The people who are so sure of themselves that they want to constitutionalize their views, or those who think that Keynes may have been on to something to some extent in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, andMoney?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT 2010
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