unconstitutionality

English Edit

unconstitutionality (countable and uncountable, plural unconstitutionalities)

(law) The status of being unconstitutional, or of not being in accord with the provisions of a constitution.
Coordinate term: anticonstitutionality
- 1858, Jefferson Davis, quoting Caleb Cushing, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, published 1881, page 551:
  I have heard again and again, remonstrances have been addressed to me more than once, because of the condemnation which Democratic speakers so continually utter about the unnationality as well as the unconstitutionality of the Republican party.

status of being unconstitutional