Definition of "constitutionalizing" []

• Present participle of constitutionalize. (verb)

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• "A final analogy: Frank Michelman's perhaps best known article is his 1968 piece in the Harvard Law Review "Protecting the Poor Through the Fourteenth Amendment," in which he set out the basic arguments for "constitutionalizing" the welfare state."
• "The difficulty of these issues can be used as an argument against constitutionalizing this area."
• "Of course, they were arguing for a common law privacy right assertable against both the government and private parties, not constitutionalizing privacy rights."