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constitución
The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
the physical constitution of the sun
constituciones • constitución
The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
1693, Edmund Bohun, A Geographical Dictionary They have in their present Constitution a Grand Council of the Nobility, a Senato, a College of Twenty six who give Audience to Ambass…
Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.
constituciones • constitución
A legal document describing such a formal system.
constitución
The general health of a person.
But when once his constitution began to decline, he broke very fast, and being attacked bya complication of diseases, he at length gave way to fate, May 10, 1733.
Don Manuel de Casafonda the governor, whose countenance bespoke a constitution far gone in a decliner had thrown himself on a sopha in the last state of despair and given way to an…
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