extraconstitutionally en · ADV
Etymology
From extraconstitutional + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In an extraconstitutional way.
"People are beginning to see this not as an immigration question anymore as much as it is a violation of rights, a violation of due process and militarizing neighborhoods extraconstitutionally," said Mike Madrid, a moderate Republican political strategist.
2025 December 21, Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke, Jeff Mason, “Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2025:When the emergency was proclaimed on June 26 there was quite a lot of misunderstanding in the West that somehow the Prime Minister had acted extraconstitutionally.
1975 July 28, T.N. Kaul, “In Which Reasons for the State of Emergency Are Explained and Defended”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023: