constitutionalize
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editEtymology
editFrom constitutional + -ize.
Verb
editconstitutionalize (third-person singular simple present constitutionalizes, present participle constitutionalizing, simple past and past participle constitutionalized)
- To incorporate into a constitution
- To provide with a constitution
- To make constitutional
- 2021 May 17, Lenese Herbert, “In unanimous Fourth Amendment ruling, a reminder that there is, in fact, no place like home”, in SCOTUSblog:
- Governmental searches of vehicles regularly occur via exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement; a myriad of decisions have constitutionalized warrantless searches of vehicles, their compartments, their containers and even their occupants.
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