Within this system, the principal constitutional restraint is that the president may serve only one six-year term.

The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraints on the destruction of human dignity.

One official was quoted as saying that the government was "pushing the envelope" of constitutional restraints.

In other cases the monarch's power is limited, not due to constitutional restraints, but to effective military rule.

States are now free of any constitutional restraint in letting juries structure the relief in damage suits.

Our institutions, like the police and the Army, have constitutional restraints.

That is the need for restraints - constitutional restraints - on official power.

The report appeared only days before two federal courts rebuked the Bush administration for ignoring constitutional restraints in the name of fighting terrorism.

It involves respect for the rule of law, constitutional restraints and decisions taken by previously elected parliaments.

He cited the recent convictions of police officers in about 20 cases, but said constitutional restraints also hamstring the state.