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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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I think that the administration was correct in postponing it because of some due process concerns.
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.
No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.
The 1918 law, the Court held, violated the liberty of contract protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Some landlords are also evicting people without so much as an appearance in court, in violation of due process.

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