alienage
1
9.9
- noun
- /ˈeɪliənɪdʒ/
- Formal
:
extranjería
- Our goal here is to determine if Plyler v. Doe and other U.S. Supreme Court precedents dealing with discrimination by the states on the basis of alienage are consistent with the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, as it was understood when it was ratified in 1868.
- illegal alienage
- alienage case
- alienage or citizenship
Examples
-
Only race, religion, alienage, and national origin are presently considered suspect classifications in federal equal protection litigation, warranting the highest level of scrutiny on defendants' policies.
Academic text (2002) -
One justice might believe laws based on alienage are worthy of strict scrutiny, but another might disagree.
Academic text (2017) -
We now apply this scholarship to other alienage cases in which the Fourteenth Amendment was the basis for the decision.
Academic text (2017) -
But the Court's decisions have established that classifications based on alienage are inherently suspect and subject to close judicial scrutiny.
Academic text (2017) -
In cases of alienage, individuals may have limited legal rights compared to citizens.
-
The attorney argued that laws discriminating against alienage violate fundamental human rights.
-
Many activists are working to raise awareness about the injustices faced due to alienage in the legal system.
Synonyms
1
6.8
A feeling that something is new and not familiar
1
9.9
The feeling of being foreign or different from others
The state of not being a citizen of a country or a member of a group
Antonyms
How Included
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Alienage starts with alien, from an old Latin word meaning 'belonging to another' or 'foreign', and adds the ending -age, a common ending that makes a noun about a 'state' or 'condition', like in marriage. So, alienage means the legal 'state' of being an alien or 'not a citizen'.