substantive due process
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to protect substantive law and certain rights from the government.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "So this test, this whole area of substantive due process, is tricky for some of the reasons you say. That’s been a criticism of the doctrine in general and a criticism of the general notion that we can have rights that the Constitution doesn’t specify, precisely because of the kind of inquiry that it invites judges to undertake."