| Show phrase due process of law was in use as far back as the year 1325 the phrase due process of law referring to the regular course of legal or judicial proceedings in any case appears in in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the federal constitution in the first 0 of f these no person shall be deprived 0 of f life liberty or property without due process of law the limitation is is on acts of congress in the other amendment no state shall deprive any person of life liberty or property without d due ue process of law the limitation is on the laws of the states according to professor manros the government of the united Sta test he be phrase is an approximate equivalent of by the law of the land contained in magna charta signed by king john in 1215 daniel websters definition of due process was the process of law which hears before it condemns which proceeds upon enquiry and renders judgment only after trial the meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life liberty property and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society the supreme court in in its interpretation pre tation of this phrase has according to munro assumed a considerable censorship over the economic legislation of congress the oxford dictionary quotes the use of the phrase process of law as early as the year 1325 detroit news |
