In violation of.
1861. I consider [Mr. Crittenden’s] plan grossly violative of the Constitution.—Mr. James F. Simmons of Rhode Island, U.S. Senate, Jan. 16: Cong. Globe, p. 405/3.
1862. I have thus far considered the case on the hypothesis that the bill is violative of national law.—Mr. David Wilmot of Pa., the same, April 30: id., p. 1874/3.
1874. The Court, while they held that to withhold the commission was an act not warranted by law, and violative of a vested legal right, decided that clause of the act of 1789 to be unconstitutional, as it gave the Court original jurisdiction where the Constitution had not given it.—I. W. Andrews, ‘Manual of the Constitution,’ p. 211 (‘Century Dict.’).
