Due process safeguards citizens by enforcing fair governmental actions. Procedural due process ensures correct application of laws; substantive due process checks law constitutionality. Due process is ...

Procedural due process ensures that the government follows fair methods, while substantive due process examines the content of government action itself, forbidding certain governmental intrusions ...

The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, quote, No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. One of the founding principles of the United ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. Legal treatises have been written about ...

Alvin Tan Yong Joon of Kinexus Legal on why employers confuse procedural steps with fairness, what the Eddie Tan case means for handling new evidence, and why 'organizational forgetfulness' creates le ...