Constitutionalism Sentence Examples

This view, however, seems to involve the existence of a greater feeling for constitutionalism than is warranted by the information at our disposal.

About that time a party of young Germans had arisen who professed to care little for constitutionalism and other " legal mummies," but made the preservation and extension of their own nationality their sole object.

In politics we have in correspondence also with the idea, monarchy, democracy, constitutionalism.

Moreover, from the start they have had an inseparable relation to the development of democratic constitutionalism.

Hallam, like Macaulay, ultimately referred all political questions to the standard of Whig constitutionalism.

He moved that the title of pater patriae should be bestowed upon Augustus, and yet resigned the appointment of praefect of the city after six days' tenure of office, because it was opposed to his ideas of constitutionalism.

Of course, his analysis is not limited to those views just mentioned but rather expands to a plethora of opinions concerning constitutionalism.

These positions, established in order to promote comparative constitutionalism, involved advice on conflicts of laws, and external relations of State bodies.

She paused on some of the issues which have arisen over the course of the longer term debate about European constitutionalism.

Walter Berns, John M. Olin University Professor emeritus at Georgetown University, investigates the history of modern constitutionalism, or limited government.

She was at this time, and indeed generally, enthusiastic for a mixture of Rousseauism and constitutionalism in politics.

Her two best books, Corinne and De l'Allemagne, are in all probability almost wholly unoriginal, a little sentiment in the first and a little constitutionalism in the second being all that she can claim.

This was followed, next year, by translations of works on the Revolution by Mallet du Pan and Mounier, and at this time he also founded and edited a monthly journal, the Neue deutsche Monatsschrift, in which for five years he wrote, mainly on historical and political questions, maintaining the principles of British constitutionalism against those of revolutionary France.

Gustavus's necessities had compelled him to break with the ecclesiastical traditions of Sweden; and they also compelled him, contrary to his masterful disposition, to accept constitutionalism, because without it his footing in his own kingdom would have been insecure.

From the partition in 1815 to the war of 1866 the history of Saxony is mainly a narrative of the slow growth of constitutionalism and popular liberty within its limits.

He covered his defection from Hardenberg's liberal constitutionalism by a series of "philosophical" treatises on the nature of the state and of man, and became the soul of the reactionary movement at the Berlin court, and the faithful henchman of Metternich in the general politics of Germany and of Europe.

All through this dialogue too, as in another at Lochleven two years afterwards, Knox was driven to axioms, not of religion but of constitutionalism, which Buchanan and he may have learned from their teacher Major, but which were not to be accepted till a later age.