Due process
requirement that courts respect all legal rights owed to people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Due process is the legal requirement that the government must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.[1] Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this is a due process violation, which offends the rule of law.
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