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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 1918 law, the Court held, violated the liberty of contract protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
The Magna Carta is often regarded as one of the first instruments which documented due process.
A shadow government has emerged, which issues executive fiats undermining constitutional guarantees of privacy, due process and free speech.
The rules of due process were designed to ensure that the government cannot arbitrarily imprison innocent people.
There is no way earlier cohorts of illicit immigrants are going to be deported except through due process which may be redefined if necessary.
You are allowing the Executive to lock people up arbitrarily, perhaps for life, without due process.

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