Due Process
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- Due Process
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- "Due Process" refers to language in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution that states that the federal and state governments cannot deprive people of their rights to life, liberty, and property without "due process of law," or, in other words, just cause and fair legal procedures. The Supreme Court has extended the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to include other rights not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution (unenumerated rights), protected under the principle of substantive due process. For example, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decreed that a Connecticut contraceptive ban was unconstitutional, as it violated married people's right to privacy, federally protected by substantive due process under the "penumbra" of the Bill of Rights.
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- Due Process
- Description
- "Due Process" refers to language in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution that states that the federal and state governments cannot deprive people of their rights to life, liberty, and property without "due process of law," or, in other words, just cause and fair legal procedures. The Supreme Court has extended the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to include other rights not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution (unenumerated rights), protected under the principle of substantive due process. For example, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decreed that a Connecticut contraceptive ban was unconstitutional, as it violated married people's right to privacy, federally protected by substantive due process under the "penumbra" of the Bill of Rights.
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