unconstitutionality
nounEtymology From unconstitutional + -ity.
1
Law The 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:
- Related terms
- constitutionality