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199Table 18. comply 1 , infringe 1 , satisfy 1 and violate 1 evoke the [Constitutionality] frameLAW1 Terms LAW2amendment, legislature, policy, provision comply 1 act, Canadian Charter of Rights andFreedoms, decision, guarantee,regulation, requirementThe focus in this case is whether the presumptive sentencing provisions (LAW1) comply with therequirements of the Charter (LAW2).act, law, legislation, measure, paragraph, power,principle, prohibition, provision, section,unavailabilityinfringe 1Section 20 (LAW1) clearly infringes the guarantee of freedom of expression (LAW2).charge, clause, common law, decision, evidence,form, Four Books Appeal, regulation, sectionsatisfy 1ability, Charter, freedom, guarantee,liberty, protection, right, rule, securityelement, principle, prong, rule,requirement, review, section, stage,standard, testAccordingly, s. 6(4) (LAW1) fails to satisfy s. 1 of the Charter (LAW2) and is unconstitutional.admission, decision, discretion, law, legislation,measure, part, policy, procedure, provision, rule,sectionviolate 1Part 2 of the Act (LAW1) does not violate s. 15 of the Charter (LAW2).Charter, Geneva Conventions, letter ofthe law, principle, rightFor all these reasons, we can group together the verbs into the same frame anddescribe it as a scenario in which some kind of law is assessed against a higher law whichmost often is the Constitution. This frame, which we decided to call [Constitutionality],contains two core FEs (LAW1 and LAW2) which the verbs comply 1 , infringe 1 , satisfy 1 andviolate 1 profile in a similar way, i.e. it is LAW1 that needs to be in agreement with LAW2 andnot the other way round.However, the verbs to violate and to infringe are polysemous and to each of theirspecialized meaning corresponds a distinct frame. From Table 19 it can be observed thatthe terms violate 2 and infringe 2 have the same number of actants as comply 1 , infringe 1 ,satisfy 1 and violate 1 but the semantic nature of the actants is different. In fact, the actantial