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constitutionalize

constitutionalize verb: to incorporate into a constitution.

Verb

constitutionalize (third-person singular simple present constitutionalizes, present participle constitutionalizing, simple past and past participle constitutionalized)

  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

Forms of constitutionalize

third-person singular presentconstitutionalizes
present participleconstitutionalizing
past participleconstitutionalized
pastconstitutionalized

Origin of constitutionalize

From constitutional + -ize.

Words formed from constitutionalize

Questions about constitutionalize

What does constitutionalize mean?
Constitutionalize means to incorporate into a constitution.
What part of speech is constitutionalize?
Constitutionalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of constitutionalize?
The past tense of constitutionalize is constitutionalized.

Words near constitutionalize in the dictionary

  1. constitutionalists
  2. constitutionalities
  3. constitutionality
  4. constitutionalization
  5. constitutionalizations
  6. constitutionalize
  7. constitutionalized
  8. constitutionalizes
  9. constitutionalizing
  10. constitutionally
  11. constitutionals

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