The phrase "constituent elements" refers to the individual parts or components that make up a whole. It means the essential building blocks or ingredients that combine to form something larger or complete. Full definition
All actions in this duration are present as constituent elements in the final form of the «passage» as a complex occasion. (religion-online.org)
From a cursory glance at this duration, at the cultural geography of the time, and at subsequent events, we can ascertain that passage of the Reform Bill included, as constituent elements: Parliamentary action, the relations between members and leaders of both Houses, the king's behavior, industrial development, bourgeois and working - class activity, and differing ideas about the preferred pattern of interaction among all of these. (religion-online.org)
In these pieces I alternately obfuscate and elucidate constituent elements: a wall sits out of place, some brushstrokes are too perfect, the tape that holds stuff together is exposed, a background is hastily darkened. (axisgallery.org)