Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who adheres to or upholds the constitution of the country; a constitutionalist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who adheres to the constitution of the country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who adheres to the
constitution of thecountry .
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Examples
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To look to Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudolph Giuliani or any of the other anti-constitutionist rightists would be trading one miserable mess for another.
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To varying degrees, rightist Republicans from Mr. Bennett to Rush Limbaugh have been as much of an embarassment to a once-proud constitutionist conservative party.
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Let's go ahead and coronate Palin the presidential nominee now and throw the constitutionist Republican vote away to the Libertarian Party right now to avoid the rush later on?
First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election 2009
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As the authoritarian leftists and rightists continue to rule the Subordinated States of America, the constitutionist, libertarian traditional conservatives continue to watch their country torn apart by partisan powermongers.
Clinton: Obama has proven his toughness, international savvy 2009
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Liberal activist wanting to legislate from the bench rather than a true constitutionist!
New names being added to short list for high court vacancy 2010
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September 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pm constitutionist says:
Think Progress » New ABC Docudrama Blames Clinton For 9/11, Praises Bush 2006
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Jansenism by the constitutionist clergy; philosophical deism by the worship of the Supreme Being, instituted by the committee of public safety; and the materialism of Holbach's school by the worship of Reason and of Nature, decreed by the commune.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840
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