Federal Constitution

American  

noun

1. Constitution of the United States.

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Example Sentences

“In this preliminary posture, the ultimate merits question — whether S. B. 8 is consistent with the Federal Constitution — is not before the Court,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

Ginsburg viewed the Double Jeopardy Clause as barring "successive prosecutions by parts of the whole USA," noting that the United States and the individual states "compose one people, bound by an overriding Federal Constitution."

From Fox News • Jun. 17, 2019

So this dispute falls in this kind of permissive area of state policymaking where maybe some would argue that allowing this money to go to churches might pass muster under the Federal Constitution.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2017

Both the Federal Constitution and the State constitutions set out many guarantees of rights and liberties for the individual in this country.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Reflecting men have always supposed, that, if there were a weak point in the Federal Constitution, it was in the provision for the exercise of the executive power.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel