CONSTITUTIONALIZE

constitutionalize,vb.1. To provide with a constitution <constitutionalize the new government>.2. To make con-stitutional; to bring in line with a constitution <the court plans to constitutionalize the segregated school district>.3. To make a constitutional question out of (a question of law); to subject (issue, etc.) to the burden of passing constitutional muster <the dissenter accused the majority of unnecessarily constitutionalizing the issue>. [Blacks Law 8th]