1. What is Due Process?
• Due process is a right guaranteed by the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution in which the individual rights of a person is protected. This includes the following: a law creating a and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to establish procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted. Furthermore, this underlines the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which is also known as the Bill of Rights, the fifth stating “No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
2. Why is due process such …show more content…
Since in today’s society there has been more criminal activity like: robberies, drug dealing, homicides, murders, and recent terrorist attacks those who didn’t participate might be tried for a crime they didn’t even commit. Before due process was established, interrogators would pressure those who were being interrogated until the point they would admit to the crime even if they didn’t do it; if that were done today many our right would not be protected and while in court, we might not even get a fair trial.
4. Would you want to live in a society that did not guarantee due process rights?
• I would not want to live in a society were due process was not guaranteed because my right would not be protected. Which also means that the Bill of Rights would also not be protected because the justice system would not even care to follow all or any of them during a case. If a society like this existed we would not have the following: fair trails, right against arrest without probable cause, unreasonable seizure, fair questioning by police, right to attorney, the right to be treated equally no matter what race, religion, sex, preference, and other personal attributes
• Due process is a right guaranteed by the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution in which the individual rights of a person is protected. This includes the following: a law creating a and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to establish procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted. Furthermore, this underlines the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which is also known as the Bill of Rights, the fifth stating “No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
2. Why is due process such …show more content…
Since in today’s society there has been more criminal activity like: robberies, drug dealing, homicides, murders, and recent terrorist attacks those who didn’t participate might be tried for a crime they didn’t even commit. Before due process was established, interrogators would pressure those who were being interrogated until the point they would admit to the crime even if they didn’t do it; if that were done today many our right would not be protected and while in court, we might not even get a fair trial.
4. Would you want to live in a society that did not guarantee due process rights?
• I would not want to live in a society were due process was not guaranteed because my right would not be protected. Which also means that the Bill of Rights would also not be protected because the justice system would not even care to follow all or any of them during a case. If a society like this existed we would not have the following: fair trails, right against arrest without probable cause, unreasonable seizure, fair questioning by police, right to attorney, the right to be treated equally no matter what race, religion, sex, preference, and other personal attributes