constitutionalist:

(plural: ‘constitutionalists‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “kon”)

a person who believes that a government should be based on established laws and principles (a written constitution), and the power must be distributed and limited by laws that are to be obeyed by strict rules,

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a constitutionalist, Pakistan

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Mummahmud Ali Jinna, the founding father of Pakistan, is known to be a constitutionalist.

From the way some governments treat the constitutionalists as terrorists, most people tend to become anti-constitutionalists.

Some political philosophers are in the opinion that the Obama administration in the US is anti-constitutionalist, and, as a result, it is not governing the country but ruling it!

Ron Paul, a constitutionalist, USA

For an article on ‘Wise Geek’ website that explains what a constitutionalist is, please click here, for an article that talks about how the present US political parties are getting away from the constitutionalism, please click here, and for an article/blog post about how the intelligence department considers constitutionalists, please click here.

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