DUE PROCESS - The idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair. The Constitution guarantees that the government cannot take away a person's basic rights to 'life, liberty or property, without due process of law.' Courts have issued numerous rulings about what this means in particular cases.
More Legal Definition of Due Process at The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon.
How does the Fourteenth Amendment apply due process to the states? See the Annotated Constitution at Cornell Law School:
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
RIGHTS GUARANTEED
PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENSHIP,
DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED
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