substantive due process

noun

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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 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 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 Thomas’s argument against substantive due process is more than doctrinal. Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for substantive due process

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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.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substantive%20due%20process. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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substantive due process

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