CONSTITUTION Copy link • CONSTITUTIONstate, status: conditio. Obs., conditio is lasting, status, transient. Composition, compositio; structura (the manner in which anything is composed). Ordinance, law, lex. The constitutions (of a church, etc.), leges; instituta et leges: constitutio (in Silver Age). Temperament, corporis constitutio, affectio: a good, strong constitution, firma corporis constitutio or affectio: corpus bene constitutum: valetudinis prosperitas: to have a strong constitution, corpore robusto esse: alicui corpus bene constitutum est: a bad, weak constitution, corporis or valetudinis infirmitas, imbecillitas, valetudo tenuis, infirma or non firma: to have a weak constitution, valetudine infirma uti: to have a very bad or weak constitution, tenui aut nulla potius esse valetudine. Form of government, civitatis forma: civitatis status (state of the country): reipublicae ratio or modus (with reference to the nature of the government): reipublicae genus (considered as a species of the various constitutions) instituta et leges (its laws and institutions collectively): a constitution very judiciously established by our fathers, descriptio civitatis a majoribus nostris sapientissime constituta: to change the constitution, formam reipublicae mutare: to give a constitution to a state, rempublicam institutis temperare: rempublicam or imperium constituere: rempublicam stabilire: against the constitution of the country, *legibus civitatis repugnans: non legitimus; non justus.