0 not allowed by the constitution (= set of rules for government) of a country or organization: --
Changing the law in this way would be unconstitutional.
1 not allowed by the constitution (= set of political principles) of a country or organization --
A temporary court injunction resulted from a legal challenge which was ruled unconstitutional nine months later.
This period was characterised from the outset by the hegemony of the army, unconstitutional government, a state of emergency and incipient terror.
A legal argument asserting delegative laws and necessity and urgency decrees to be unconstitutional was interpreted as disastrous for the future of the economic plan.
Accordingly, each of the challenged districts was struck down as unconstitutional.
This specification of the concept of an unconstitutional "scenario" follows from the "state action" doctrine, discussed infra text accompanying note 53.
Or are they unconstitutional on the rationale that the state may not be permitted to accomplish indirectly what it could not do directly?
In contrast, rulings that declare government acts unconstitutional suggest that the judiciary is an effective check.
Optionality means that legislators can legitimately switch back and forth between valid rules, at least if the legislators lack an unconstitutional purpose in doing so.
