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Examples of substantive due process in a Sentence
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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.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substantive%20due%20process. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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