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due process of lawLegal principle, dating from the Magna Carta, the charter of rights granted by King John of England in 1215, and now enshrined in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law (a fair legal procedure). In the USA, the provisions have been given a wide interpretation, to include, for example, the right to representation by an attorney. |
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| The administration then appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court, where the justices were called to consider the legitimacy of the president's power to suspend the constitutional protections of the due process of law from an American citizen. Thousands of parents have lost property and other rights without due process of law through interlocking state and federal bills of attainder. To sum it up succinctly, people aren't to be "disappeared," tortured, or denied due process of law. |
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