substantive due process

noun

Examples of substantive due process in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Thomas’s argument against substantive due process is more than doctrinal. Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022 Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence in Dobbs rendered this explicit in calling for the reconsideration of other substantive due process cases. Kenji Yoshino, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022 Day’s letter also cites a number of precedents of judicial review addressing substantive due process challenges to conditional use denials. Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023 Why are they protected under the rubric of substantive due process? Kenji Yoshino, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022 The stories that follow illustrate the impact on people, families and communities of the major unwritten rights that the Supreme Court has, over the past century, recognized under substantive due process. Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022 Under a doctrine known as substantive due process, the Supreme Court has previously ruled that certain constitutional rights exist even if they are not explicitly protected by the Constitution’s text or structure. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022 And this is called, uh, substantive due process as the basis for the Dred Scott decision and Plessy versus Ferguson. Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022 Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ . . . Jonathan Edwards, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1954, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of substantive due process was in 1954

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substantive due process

noun
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