Due Process

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution includes these words: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Those few sentences are our guarantee of being treated justly by government institutions. But what does due process look like? The following links explain the different kinds of due process and put due process in its historical context.

www.answers.com/topic/due-process (includes definitions, explains the differences between substantive and procedural due process, explains international due process vs. U.S. due process, explores its development and use as a legal doctrine, includes criticisms of due process, The Right to Due Process of Law (article shows how the U.S. Supreme Court made decisions over the years that interpret due process)