Sentences with phrase «though constitutional authority»

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It is difficult to imagine on what constitutional authority Corbyn could impose a three - line whip to make his MPs vote against intervention in Syria (though reports initially suggested this is what he had in mind).

Second, they can argue that the officer was taking his sweet time and delayed the stop, ending his constitutional authority for the stop even though the safety - related checks were not complete.

If any act of Congress or of the legislature of a state violates those constitutional provisions, it is unquestionably void, though I admit that as the authority to declare it void is of a delicate and awful nature, the court will never resort to that authority but in a clear and urgent case.