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Due process is the legal code that the state must venerate all of the legal rights that are owed to a person under the principle. Due process balances the power of the state law of the land and thus protects individual persons from it...

Timeline of Events

1868

7.9.1868

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.

7.28.1868

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

1905

4.17.1905

The Supreme Court of the United States decides ''Lochner v. New York'' which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.