unenumerated
- a word derived from enumerated.
Example Sentences
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“I have no doubt that parents have rights, even though unenumerated, concerning their children and the life choices they make,” Justice Elena Kagen wrote in her dissent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
On the substantive side, Kagan emphasized how the majority’s endorsement of parental rights claims under the due process clause conflicted with its increased resistance to using the clause to protect unenumerated rights.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
Further, most of these decisions were engaged in a similar endeavor: explicating how rights relate to one another, and why the structure of constitutional law requires some unenumerated rights in order to function.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2023
That clause would seem like the most obvious source of unenumerated rights, as privileges and immunities are clearly substantive in nature.
From Washington Post
Many vegetable foods would still be unenumerated, and there would be numerous shell-fish—periwinkles, cockles, mussels, scallops, dolphins, besides crabs.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
