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Constitution   /kˌɑnstətˈuʃən/   Listen
Constitution

noun
1.
Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government.  Synonyms: fundamental law, organic law.
2.
The act of forming or establishing something.  Synonyms: establishment, formation, organisation, organization.  "It was the establishment of his reputation" , "He still remembers the organization of the club"
3.
The constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states.  Synonyms: Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, United States Constitution, US Constitution.
4.
The way in which someone or something is composed.  Synonyms: composition, make-up, makeup, physical composition.
5.
A United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States; it won brilliant victories over British frigates during the War of 1812 and is without doubt the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy; it has been rebuilt and is anchored in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.  Synonym: Old Ironsides.



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"Constitution" Quotes from Famous Books



... adhered to their position on internal improvements more consistently, perhaps, than to any other of the contentions which they had made before they came into power. Douglas did not, indeed, commit himself to that interpretation of the Constitution which justified appropriations for any enterprise which could be considered a contribution to the "general welfare," and he protested against various items in river and harbor bills. But as a rule he ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown

... who had become domiciled on Roman territory (Lange); only a class of degraded citizens, including neither the cives sine suffragio nor the artisans (Madvig); identical with the capite censi of the Servian constitution (Belot, Greenidge). See A. H. J. Greenidge, Infamia in Roman Law (1894), where Mommsen's theory is criticized; E. Belot, Histoire des chevaliers romains, i. p. 200 (Paris, 1866); L. Pardon, De Aerariis (Berlin, 1853); P. Willems, Le Droit public romain (1883); A. S. Wilkins ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... is expedient that the law of marriage in Scotland should be amended as far as the same affects the constitution of marriage in that country; be it enacted, by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various

... language, Russian - official language note: in March 1996, the Kyrgyz legislature amended the constitution to make Russian an official language, along with Kyrgyz, in territories and work places ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... soft, but yet its grasp is firm. It knows not yet the union of male and female, and yet its virile member may be excited;—showing the perfection of its physical essence. All day long it will cry without its throat becoming hoarse;—showing the harmony (in its constitution). ...
— Tao Teh King • Lao-Tze


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