Sentences with phrase «offenses against the constitution»

Constitutional Republics (especially those that used the U.S. Constitution in part or wholesale as a Constitution model) are governments where the highest law of the land are laws that restrict the government (in the U.S. the government is the only legal entity that can commit illegal offenses against the constitution).

We believe the Bush administration has committed numerous offenses against the Constitution and may have violated federal laws.

A campaign to get at least 2,000 lawyers and law students to sign onto a petition calling for Congress to investigate the Bush administration for «numerous offenses against the Constitution» is nearing its goal.

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Art II, Sec 2, Cl 1 of The Constitution says of the president «and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment».

By sanctioning trials of enemy aliens by military commission for offenses against the law of war, Congress recognized the right of the accused to make a defense, and did not foreclose their right to contend that the Constitution or laws of the United States withhold authority to proceed with the trial.

10, of the Constitution to «define and punish... Offenses against the Law of Nations...» of which the law of war is a part, had, by the Articles of War (10 U.S.C. § § 1471 - 1593), recognized the «military commission» appointed by military command, as it had previously existed in United States Army practice, as an appropriate tribunal for the trial and punishment of offenses against the lawOffenses against the Law of Nations...» of which the law of war is a part, had, by the Articles of War (10 U.S.C. § § 1471 - 1593), recognized the «military commission» appointed by military command, as it had previously existed in United States Army practice, as an appropriate tribunal for the trial and punishment of offenses against the lawoffenses against the law of war.