Due process — Social Studies definition
Defined in 2 courses:
- Procedures and legal protections required before government deprives a person of protected interests. (United States History & Government: Colonial Foundations to the Early 21st Century)
- Required legal procedures and protections in governmental action. (Government, Civic Participation & Economics)
Where it is taught
- Reconstruction: Reunion, Labor, Community & Its Limits — Emancipation, Reconstruction & Historical Inquiry, U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
- Reconstruction: Freedom, Citizenship & Enforcement — Reconstruction, Land & Historical Inquiry, U.S. History: Reconstruction to the Early 21st Century, Grade 8
- Reconstruction: Citizenship, Labor & Federal Enforcement — Expansion, Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction, United States History & Government: Colonial Foundations to the Early 21st Century, Grade 11
- Due Process, Civil & Criminal Cases, and Access to Justice — Rights, Justice & Public Institutions, Government, Civic Participation & Economics, Grade 12
In use
Due process concerns legally required procedures and protections in governmental action.
Due Process, Civil & Criminal Cases, and Access to Justice
Taught alongside
- context
- primary source
- interpretation
- sharecropping
- corroboration
- evidence
- burden of proof
- criminal case
- civil case
- preponderance