Definition of constructionist in English:
constructionist
noun kənˈstrʌkʃ(ə)nɪstkənˈstrəkSHənəst
1
another term for constructivist (noun)
Example sentencesExamples
- His influences range from the Russian constructionists to the Bauhaus movement, and he has been inspired by everything from scrapyards to architecture and coastlines.
- The adherents of the Bauhaus school and Russian constructionists, riding on the wave of the industrialization of the society, proclaimed the dominance of function.
2US A person who puts a particular interpretation upon a legal document, especially the US Constitution.
he is campaigning to get strict constructionists appointed to the Supreme Court
Example sentencesExamples
- Strict constructionists like the Senator might think not.
- Strict constructionists believe that government policy making should be left to the Executive and Legislative branches of government.
- What interests me is that Conservatives seem to accept that he fits the bill of a judge who will perform a strict reading of the Constitution, not some constructionist who will find things like a ‘right to privacy’ tucked away in the text.
- As conservative constructionists, they would abide by the law passed by the legislature, allowing for abortion to continue.
- Strict constructionists lie when they claim that if a right is not in the Constitution it doesn't exist.
- It's a little frightening to think what this decision could mean in the hands of one of those strictly Republican constructionists, isn't it?
- He promised to nominate strict conservative constructionists to the federal bench.
- Will the conservative constructionists, who believe that the Founding Fathers actually were pretty clear in their intent and that that intent hasn't changed over the years, form the majority?