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Constitute

To comprise or put together. That which is duly constituted is properly made up and formally correct and valid.

Constituted authorities are officers who are properly appointed under constitutional provision to govern the people.

constitute

(Compose), verb be a feature, be inherrnt, be part of, belong, belong intrinsically, classify as, commonere, comprise, consist of, contain, create, efficere, embrace, encompass, form, include, incorporate, inhere in, involve, make up, produce, put together

constitute

(Establish), verb bring about, bring about by legislation, charter, codify, commission, constituere, create, creete by law, declare lawful, decree, designare, determine, devise, effect, effect by legislation, effectuate, empower, enact, endorse, engender, formulate, formulate by law, give legal form to, inaugurate, install, institute, invest, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, license, make legal, ordain, organize, originate, pass, prescribe, prescribe by law, put in force, sanction, set up, statuere, validate
Associated concepts: constitute a cause of action, constitute a crime, constitute a fraud, constitute an obstruction
Foreign phrases: Eodem modo quo quid constituitur, dissolvitur.A thing is discharged in the same way in which it was created.

TO CONSTITUTE, contr. To empower, to authorize. In the common form of letters of attorney, these words occur, I nominate, constitute and appoint."

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P grouped B and G together to constitute a single "activity.

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The only guideline is that the prior purchases must be "old and cold," but no time period is specified for determining what constitutes "old and cold.

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Supreme Court poised to decide what constitutes actionable retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, attorneys at Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with one of the nation's top labor and employment practices, have filed an amicus brief in the case of Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Proskauer Rose Files Amicus Brief in Major Employment Discrimination Case Now before the U.S. Supreme Court

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