At the beginning of the contest, constitutional scruples might be respectable.

It gets a few degrees above Mr. Scranton's constitutional scruples.

President Madison had only to reach out his hand and pluck the ripe fruit; yet he hesitated from constitutional scruples.

But these proposed activities did not seem so obviously legitimate to Presidents of the Virginia Dynasty; not so readily could they waive constitutional scruples.

He had little regard for Constitutional scruples.

The simple truth is, that Slavery is the only subject about which the Publishing Committee have felt Constitutional scruples.