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  2. Substantive due process - Wikipedia

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    Substantive due process is a principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect substantive laws and certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if they are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.

  3. Rational basis review - Wikipedia

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    This test also applies to both legislative and executive action, whether those actions be of a substantive or procedural nature. The rational basis test prohibits the government from imposing restrictions on liberty that are irrational or arbitrary, or drawing distinctions between persons in a manner that serves no constitutionally legitimate ...

  4. Undue burden standard - Wikipedia

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    The test, first developed in the late 20th century, is widely used in American constitutional law. [1] In short, the undue burden standard states that a legislature cannot make a particular law that is too burdensome or restrictive of one's fundamental rights.

  5. Defining Issues Test - Wikipedia

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    The Defining Issues Test is a component model of moral development devised by James Rest in 1974. [1] The University of Minnesota formally established the Center for the Study of Ethical Development [2] as a vehicle for research around this test in 1982. The Center relocated to larger premises within the University of Alabama and is now located ...

  6. Political ethics - Wikipedia

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    Political ethics (also known as political morality or public ethics) is the practice of making moral judgments about political action and political agents. [1] It covers two areas: the ethics of process (or the ethics of office), which covers public officials and their methods, [2] [3] and the ethics of policy (or ethics and public policy), which concerns judgments surrounding policies and laws.

  7. Ordered liberty - Wikipedia

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    While Grothouse did not offer a concise definition of "liberty", he emphasized the ongoing debate over its meaning and scope within the context of the Due Process Clause. The author suggested that a nuanced understanding of ordered liberty allows for recognizing new rights while remaining grounded in legal principles and respecting the balance ...

  8. Political legitimacy - Wikipedia

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    Legitimacy is "a value whereby something or someone is recognized and accepted as right and proper". [6] In political science, legitimacy has traditionally been understood as the popular acceptance and recognition by the public of the authority of a governing régime, whereby authority has political power through consent and mutual understandings, not coercion.

  9. Principlism - Wikipedia

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    Principlism is an applied ethics approach to the examination of moral dilemmas centering the application of certain ethical principles. This approach to ethical decision-making has been prevalently adopted in various professional fields, largely because it sidesteps complex debates in moral philosophy at the theoretical level.