- right to due process
- nouna right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution; reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment• Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence• Hypernyms: ↑civil right
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
right to due process
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