Due Process Clause

<p>A Due Process Clause is found in both the <a href="/facts/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution/6ET9uaLU">Fifth</a> and <a href="/facts/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution/TXMVRymL">Fourteenth</a> Amendments to the <a href="/facts/United_States_Constitution/AJlEWNR3">United States Constitution</a>, which prohibit the deprivation of "life, liberty, or property" by the federal and state governments, respectively, without due process of law.
</p><p>The <a href="/facts/U.S._Supreme_Court/rJHothwW">U.S. Supreme Court</a> interprets these clauses to guarantee a variety of protections: <a href="/facts/Procedural_due_process/7vU0XWz2">procedural due process</a> (in civil and criminal proceedings); <a href="/facts/Substantive_due_process/WDFRg1fM">substantive due process</a> (a guarantee of some fundamental rights); a prohibition against <a href="/facts/Vagueness_doctrine/S7rMqP5J">vague laws</a>; <a href="/facts/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights/xtdq0Wm3">incorporation of the Bill of Rights</a> to state governments; and <a href="/facts/Equality_before_the_law/cEe7W4rc">equal protection</a> under the <a href="/facts/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights/xtdq0Wm3">laws of the federal government</a>.
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Due Process Clause