UNCONSTITUTIONALLY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Unconstitutionally

... all my term as president, I was constitutionally silent." This is not correct, for the constitution gave him leave to speak and even to act. At bottom it was true, for the constitution, in allowing him to act and speak, was acting unconstitutionally. In speaking he would have been constitutional, in holding his tongue he was institutional. He had been in fact institutionally silent. He disobeyed the letter of the constitution, but he had admirably ...

— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet