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substantive right
noun
- a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
Word History and Origins
Origin of substantive right1
Example Sentences
The majority specifically said that the state constitution’s “Sanctity of Life” amendment, which establishes fetal personhood, is “directly aimed at stopping courts from excluding ‘unborn life’ from legal protection” and grants a substantive right to embryos to receive full equal protection under the law.
“It isn’t a substantive right to receive the Miranda warnings themselves.”
In his draft opinion, Blackmun disposed of the Texas statute on vagueness grounds but took on the substantive right of a woman to decide to terminate her pregnancy when analyzing the Georgia statute.
“The proposed regulations minimize the substantive right that employees be given time to improve their performance, and they sacrifice fairness for the sake of expediency.”
The competing measure would keep the state Supreme Court in charge of court rules, but would allow the Legislature to make changes with a three-fifths vote to a provision it finds “abridges, enlarges or modifies any substantive right.”
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