constitutionally prohibit
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To forbid an action or law by means of a constitution.
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- The new amendment aims to constitutionally prohibit discrimination based on genetic information.
- The president is constitutionally prohibited from serving more than two terms in office.
- The 18th Amendment constitutionally prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
- The amendment would constitutionally prohibit any form of cruel and unusual punishment.
- Some activists believe we should constitutionally prohibit all forms of capital punishment.
- Many countries constitutionally prohibit discrimination based on religion or race.
- Slavery was constitutionally prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment in the United States.
- Such actions are constitutionally prohibited by the nation's founding document.
- The act of constitutionally prohibiting free speech would undermine democracy itself.
- Our laws constitutionally prohibit the government from infringing on free speech.
- The proposed bill will seek to constitutionally prohibit foreign interference in national elections.
- The court ruled that the new policy was constitutionally prohibited.
- Can a state constitutionally prohibit its citizens from leaving its borders?
- Citizens are constitutionally prohibited from being deprived of their right to vote without due process.
- If the measure passes, it would constitutionally prohibit the use of public funds for private school vouchers.
- No state can constitutionally prohibit the free exercise of religion.
- The Supreme Court has ruled that you cannot constitutionally prohibit peaceful protest.
- This clause constitutionally prohibits the establishment of a state religion.
- It is impossible to constitutionally prohibit all forms of dissent in a truly free society.
- Historically, certain practices were not constitutionally prohibited but are now.