"To sustain ancient constitutional doctrines at a time like this becomes impossible."

The first question is an almost abstract matter of constitutional doctrine, while the answer to the second is highly dependent on specific details.

As constitutional doctrine, the opinion contributed significantly to the Court's later abortion decisions.

"Both natural law and English constitutional doctrine gave the colonists a right to revolt against the sovereign's oppression."

Beyond its practical impact, the new case is also highly significant as a matter of constitutional doctrine.

More, he has attacked the Court's entire method of fashioning and evolving constitutional doctrine.

The constitutional doctrines that undergird these positions are complex and contradictory.

It is conventional constitutional doctrine that where reasonable people disagree the Government can adopt one position or the other.

We spend more time talking about constitutional doctrine than the politics of affirmative action.

The courts have held that interposition is not a valid constitutional doctrine.