However, the Court has identified a constitutional difficulty with many modern vagrancy laws.
He signed it but said he would treat those provisions as advisory, not binding, because they raised "constitutional difficulties."
But such an arrangement entangles church and state and raises enormous constitutional difficulties.
It touched upon an argument more powerful than that of the constitutional difficulties the divorce would cause.
Justice O'Connor: I thought there should typically try to be a construction that would avoid constitutional difficulties, not encourage them.
Not to mention the constitutional and legal difficulties that would be entailed in providing tax relief and tax dollars for religious education.
The commission has an "obligation to resolve constitutional difficulties," he said.
The constitutional difficulty of this attack is clear enough.
But the issue has posed constitutional difficulties because any direct restraint might run afoul of First Amendment rights to free speech.
Any other interpretation would, after all, lead to constitutional difficulties.