constitution
Noun
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referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: law - legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activityspecific instances: constitution, constitution of the united states, u.s. constitution, united states constitution, us constitution - the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen statessame as: fundamental law, organic law
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subtypes:
- unionisation, unionization - act of forming labor unions
- collectivisation, collectivization - the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism
- communisation, communization - the organization of a nation of the basis of communism
- federation - the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs
- colonisation, colonization, settlement - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
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referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis an instance of: constitution, fundamental law, organic law - law determining the fundamental political principles of a governmenthas:
- advice and consent - a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making
- bill of rights - a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution)
- fourteenth amendment - an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government
- eighteenth amendment - an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932
- nineteenth amendment - an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex
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is a type of: property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a classsubtypes:
- structure - the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- phenotype - what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment
- genetic constitution, genotype - the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism
- grain, texture - the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- karyotype - the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes)
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is an instance of: sailing warship - a warship that was powered by sails and equipped with many heavy guns; not built after the middle of the 19th centurysame as: old ironsides
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