constituted
v.v. to be the parts that make up a whole thing. You use this when saying what something is made of or what its official parts are.
v. to form or compose the components of a whole; to be equivalent to or amount to something. Often used in legal or formal contexts to establish the status or identity of a group or entity.
These twelve people constituted the entire jury.
The committee decided that the evidence provided by the witness constituted a serious breach of privacy.
While the individual clauses were minor, their combined effect constituted a significant shift in the nation's foreign policy, effectively ending a decade of isolationism.
The verb is transitive and often appears in the passive voice ('is constituted by').
The team is constituted from five membersThe team is constituted of five membersWhen using the passive form to describe composition, 'of' or 'by' is the standard preposition, not 'from'.