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What does constitutive mean?

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  1. having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something
  2. having the power or authority to appoint someone to office
  3. extremely important, essential
  4. that forms a constituent part of something else
  5. (biochemistry) (of an enzyme) that is continuously produced at a constant rate
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It is a testimony to the idea of democracy itself that the battle over its constitutive elements will, in all likelihood, continue.
We begin to narrativize our lives through our accoutrements, through our objects, as if they are the constitutive elements of subjecthood.
The institutionalization of rationality is the constitutive feature of institutions in the modern business enterprise.
Here, I will consider the death penalty solely as a constitutive element of our political arrangements.
They may become part of the internal logic of fighting and develop into a constitutive element of warfare.
In short, schizophrenic identity is an important constitutive element of cultural paranoia.

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