constitutioner

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who frames or revises a constitution.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:constitutioner.
2. 2

   Alternative letter-case form of Constitutioner (“member of the Constitution Club”).

3. 3

   A member of the Constitution Club, a reformist Whig society at Oxford in the 1710s.

   • One of the proctors, in particular, had the modesty and good manners to tell the convocation, that the constitutioners were […] most vile wretches who were hated by gods and men.
   • A Brasenose man was wounded by a gunshot fired by one of the Constitutioners, or their friends in Oriel, after which the crowd retired to pull down the conventicles.
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   1. 4

      A member of the Constitution Party, a loosely organized far-right third party in the…

      A member of the Constitution Party, a loosely organized far-right third party in the United States founded in 1952 and dissolved in the 1970s.

      • The Constitution Party of Texas Tuesday substituted Mrs. W. Lee O’Daniel in the place of her husband as their nominee for governor of Texas. [see title]
      • William P. Gale, the Constitution Party’s candidate for governor of California, says it is mixture of the races which is leading the world to Armageddon […] [see title]
      • The Constitution Party Monday night named Charles Sullivan, 29, Clarksdale, Miss., attorney, as its presidential candidate. [see title]

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