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An example of a constitutional republic is the United States’ form of government. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448835' }}, {code: 'ad_btmslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_btmslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_btmslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, expires: 365 { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [300, 250] }}, The constituent structure of sentences is identified using tests for constituents. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776142', position: 'btf' }}, Empowered to elect or designate. window.ga=window.ga||function(){(ga.q=ga.q||[]).push(arguments)};ga.l=+new Date; }; {code: 'ad_btmslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_btmslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_btmslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_leftslot' }}]}, Constituent can be a noun or adjective. filterSettings: { Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. ga('create', 'UA-31379-3',{cookieDomain:'dictionary.cambridge.org',siteSpeedSampleRate: 10}); { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, 2. Aristotle (ca 350 BC) was the first to make a formal distinction between ordinary law and constitutional law, establishing ideas of constitution and constitutionalism, and attempting to classify different forms of constitutional government.The most basic definition he used to describe a constitution in general terms was "the arrangement of the offices in a state". "sign-up": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/auth/signup?rid=READER_ID", { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971063', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup), (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction, a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes, a supplementary component that improves capability, a component that is added to something to improve it, a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices, (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system, the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat, a component of production; something that goes into the production of output, component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard, (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components, (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), a component or accessory added to something after it has been manufactured, an extra component of a machine or other apparatus, a component of an ignition system; consists of two shaped electrodes and the space between them, something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine, an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base, an addition that was not included in the original plan, the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking, a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment, (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system, the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity), a heating element that is immersed in the liquid that is to be heated (as in a hot-water tank), a crystal that can be used as a transducer, module that provides power to operate other modules, computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order, computer hardware that sorts data or programs into a predetermined sequence, hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did, something less than the whole of a human artifact, the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim, a component or element of the plot of a story, a geometric element that has position but no extension, an element, idea, or argument used to create a contrast, (film) a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot, (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system, the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis, one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole, the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists, one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed, a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list, the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots, the most important or necessary part of something, a small part that can be considered separately from the whole, an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole, something left after other parts have been taken away, the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus), extended verbal expression in speech or writing, a unit of language that native speakers can identify, a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme, a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go', minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units, minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function, a language unit by which a person or thing is known, (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language, a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified, a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists, the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object, the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object, a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning, (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding), (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter, (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription, the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment, one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe, an intervening substance through which something is achieved, (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed, a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure, a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor, any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted, an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together, (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated, (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon, a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier, a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate, a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the object that receives the direct action of the verb, the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb, a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence, (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence, a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction, a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction, an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence, (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula, the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate, a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition, a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition, the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion, the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion, the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion, a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, storage: { Don't have an account yet? googletag.cmd.push(function() { { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446382' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195465', size: [300, 250] }}, } { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971080', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_2', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [320, 100], [320, 50], [300, 50]] } }, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654151' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '705055' }}, This would generate jobs for his constituents and no doubt donations to his reelection campaign. 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