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Palko tests

Palko tests is the plural of Palko test.

Meaning of Palko test

Noun

Palko test (plural Palko tests)

  1. (US) A judicial test as to whether a US state is bound by the United States Bill of Rights in relation to a specific right claimed by the plaintiff, hinging on whether the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution override the immunity which ordinarily applies to states; specifically, the right in question must be "of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty" and "deeply rooted in [American] history and tradition" in order to qualify.
    • The Palko test was stated and has heretofore been taken as a definition (of questionable contemporary vitality) of due process generally, not of privacy.1994, Jules L. Coleman, Anthony James Sebok, Constitutional Law and Its Interpretation, page 231

Questions about Palko tests

What is Palko tests the plural of?
Palko tests is the plural of Palko test.

Words near Palko tests in the dictionary

  1. palkigharries
  2. palkigharry
  3. palkis
  4. Palko
  5. Palko test
  6. Palko tests
  7. Palkos
  8. pall
  9. pall inverted
  10. pall mall
  11. Pall Malls

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