One of the objectives of my work in developing this kind of grammar of constitutional law has been to enable constitutional decisionmakers to take up nonjudicial questions and to enable nonjudicial decisionmakers to take up constitutional questions generally, from a legal point of view.

DEFINE: The author is defining a framework — a 'grammar of constitutional law' — designed to expand who can legitimately address constitutional questions and what kinds of questions can be addressed constitutionally.

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