unconstitutionality

Meanings

noununconstitutionality (countable and uncountable, plural unconstitutionalities)

countableuncountablelawThe status of being unconstitutional, or of not being in accord with the provisions of a constitution.
I have heard again and again, remonstrances have been addressed to me more than once, because of the condemnation which Democratic speakers so continually utter about the unnationality as well as the unconstitutionality of the Republican party.
1858, Jefferson Davis, quoting Caleb Cushing, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, published 1881, page 551

Arabic عَدَم دُسْتُورِيَّة

Catalan inconstitucionalitat

French inconstitutionnalité

German Verfassungswidrigkeit

Greek αντισυνταγματικότητα

Hungarian alkotmányellenesség

Italian incostituzionalità

Japanese 違憲

Polish niekonstytucyjność

Portuguese inconstitucionalidade

Russian неконституцио́нность

Spanish inconstitucionalidad

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