Federal Constitution
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All this, Mr. Mikaberidze notes, exerted a pull that alarmed the new government George Washington formed under the Federal Constitution of 1789.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
“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
Lithwick: And talk for a minute, Holly, because it’s not immediately apparent why the states are more worried about disestablishment than the Federal Constitution.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2017
This he did in a tract, entitled An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
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