Federal Constitution
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The Federal Constitution of 1789 eventually took greater prominence for the American public.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 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
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
Nine of these States in solemn legislative action, in the fifties, utterly repudiated their contract in the Federal Constitution.
From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.
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