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Chairman of a self-constituted intercongregational lay committee, he campaigned with the argument that three in every seven Jewish families in Louisville neglected to keep up congregational membership.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Beecham cannot be dismissed merely as a brilliant swashbuckler or the self-constituted enfant terrible of music, for the Beecham legend stands on a rock of solid musical achievement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The self-constituted group, the therapists decided, had been readymade for treatment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 500 deputies and senators met as a self-constituted National Assembly, took a solemn oath "to defend the Constitution and defend our liberties even if it means sacrificing our lives."

From Time Magazine Archive

Of all his words and deeds and attitudes he is himself self-constituted, reverend judge.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.