RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution; reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("right to due process" is a kind of...):

civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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