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What is due process?

What is due process? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A legal concept where a person is ensured all legal rights when deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for a given reason.
  2. (law) The limits of laws and legal proceedings, so as to ensure a person fairness, justice and liberty.
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The rules of due process were designed to ensure that the government cannot arbitrarily imprison innocent people.
Some landlords are also evicting people without so much as an appearance in court, in violation of due process.
No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.
The Magna Carta is often regarded as one of the first instruments which documented due process.
I think that the administration was correct in postponing it because of some due process concerns.
You are allowing the Executive to lock people up arbitrarily, perhaps for life, without due process.

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