constitutionalize

constitutional +‎ -ize

constitutionalize (third-person singular simple present constitutionalizes, present participle constitutionalizing, simple past and past participle constitutionalized)

1. To incorporate into a constitution
2. To provide with a constitution
3. To make constitutional
   • 2021 May 17, Lenese Herbert, “In unanimous Fourth Amendment ruling, a reminder that there is, in fact, no place like home”, in SCOTUSblog:

     Governmental searches of vehicles regularly occur via exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement; a myriad of decisions have constitutionalized warrantless searches of vehicles, their compartments, their containers and even their occupants.

• constitutionalization