extraconstitutional
[ek-struh-kon-sti-too-shuh-nl, ‐tyoo-]
- not authorized by or based on a constitution; beyond the provisions of a constitution.
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Examples from the Web for extra-constitutional
Contemporary Examples
By creating an extra-constitutional authority, it would delegitimize Parliament, they say.
Historical Examples
The whole affair, reasoning of course on the principles of the Vice-President, is extra-constitutional.
Strictures on NullificationAlexander Hill Everett
It has been censured as a resort to extra-constitutional measures, not for the sake of public safety, but as a party manuvre.
Lord Randolph ChurchillWinston Spencer Churchill
Bold and extra-constitutional expedients necessarily grow out of the prevailing violence.
But the final strain was evaded by the adoption of the extra-constitutional expedient to which I refer.
France and the RepublicWilliam Henry Hurlbert
Now they do the same thing, rising against a provisional and extra-constitutional Government.
The EconomistVarious