constitutionalize
verbEtymology From constitutional + -ize.
1
To incorporate into a constitution
2
To provide with a constitution
3
To make constitutional
- 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.2021 May 17, Lenese Herbert, “In unanimous Fourth Amendment ruling, a reminder that there is, in fact, no place like home”, in SCOTUSblog:
- Derived terms
- constitutionalization, deconstitutionalize