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constitutionalist

[kon-sti-too-shuh-nl-ist, -tyoo-]

noun

  1. an adherent or advocate of constitutionalism or of an existing constitution.

  2. an expert on a political constitution.



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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • anticonstitutionalist adjective
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of constitutionalist1

First recorded in 1760–70; constitutional + -ist
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Example Sentences

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In his view, the Democratic Party’s agenda and its ā€œquiet revolutionā€ could be stopped only by a ā€œradical constitutionalist,ā€ someone in the mold of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison.

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Like many on the far-right here, he calls himself a constitutionalist.

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The party now is not segregationist and in recent years officials told the Times that it ā€œis a conservative, constitutionalist party.ā€

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He says all the things he believes his constituents and fellow Republicans want to hear without understanding or caring what the true definitions of terms such as ā€œconstitutionalistā€ mean.

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ā€œThese criminal charges shield Joe Biden,ā€ said Mike Davis, a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and president of the Article III Project, which advocates for constitutionalist judges and the rule of law.

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