constitutive

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But the statute is equally important at the local level, where most Section 2 litigation plays out and where its constitutive value is more apparent.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2025

"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.

From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023

Rather than seeing federal Indian policy as a constitutive feature of the emerging administrative state, “Indigenous Continent” discounts it, strangely suggesting that “reservations were a sign of American weakness, not strength.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

The trp operon is constitutive and remains ON by default, whereas the lac operon is repressible and therefore is OFF by default.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

It is Christ in us, it is the personal fellowship of the soul with Him and with the living God through Him, that forms the vital and constitutive factor of Christianity.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.