31.   In other words, if the legislative and executive branches would like to allow torture, the judicial branch need not defend constitutional principles.

32.   In that case, a circuit court ruled that part of the law violated the constitutional principle that bars Congress from dictating judicial decisions to the courts.

33.   In theory, the critics are objecting to judicial overreach that interprets constitutional principles in ways not specified in the document itself.

34.   It is not merely the rights of gay men and lesbians that are at issue, but fundamental constitutional principles.

35.   It violates basic constitutional principles and overlooks the valuable economic and social contribution that immigrants make every day.

36.   On the other hand, conservatives were quick to support the constitutional principle on which the decision was based.

37.   Others wonder whether at a time when private companies wield power over online behavior by computer code, constitutional principles should regulate private as well as state action.

38.   Prosecutors argued that McVeigh thought strongly that the federal government had abandoned vital constitutional principles, especially the right to bear arms.

39.   Reno keeps celebrating her stubbornness as if it were some sort of national asset or a constitutional principle that had legal standing.

40.   Prosecutors said his self-styled patriotism was fired by a fear that the federal government had abandoned constitutional principles, especially the right to bear arms.