He implies that blacks opposing this would to "revert to the separate-but-equal doctrine that until 1954 gave constitutional sanction to second-class citizenship for the race."

From Breckinridge's constructionist viewpoint, allowing Congress to legislate emancipation without constitutional sanction would lead to "unlimited dominion over the territories, excluding the people of the slave states from emigrating thither with their property".

The adoption of the Unio Trium Nationum, which implicitly excluded the Estate of Romanians, gave constitutional sanction to the end of the Universitas Valachorum.

It was meant to provide constitutional sanction to establish "democracy at the grassroots level as it is at the state level or national level".

Then, without clear constitutional sanction, he dissolved the National Assembly and proclaimed martial law in January 1953.

It was introduced by the Standing Orders of 1987 and found its constitutional sanction in the Amendment of 2001.

Last year The Times's Herbert Mitgang called the book "a lucid and challenging account of how Americans fought on battlefields outside the United States during the last 150 years without constitutional sanction."

Is it that you have done all that you wanted to do, though not in the way and with the constitutional sanction you yearned for?

The problem is that House Republicans misused the power of impeachment to deal with Presidential misconduct that deserves formal rebuke but not the ultimate constitutional sanction of overturning an election.