Protections Against Arbitrary Imprisonment

• Rule of Law
• Habeas Corpus
• Due Process
• 1354 Magna Carta (Edward III), Clause 39
• Due Process protections of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution

Rule of Law

so the rule of law is laws everyone has to abide to and stay to, even the powerful

Habeas Corpus

laws that state that you can not be held in prison with out a hearing before a judge

late Middle English: Latin, literally ‘you shall have the body (in court)

Due Process

due process means that the government can’t hurt you or your possessions and take them with out a full and fair legal process

1354 Magna Carta (Edward III), Clause 39

the Magna Carta is made up of rules that state that that a king can not abuse his power by abusing the people outside the law.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and-mentor/due-process-of-law.html

Due Process protections of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution

The Fifth Amendment says that no one with power can take your stuff ore abuse your stuff without due process.

The Fourteenth Amendment makes the fifth amendment qualify in every state. ratified in 1868,