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The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause

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The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, forbids states to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

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For the first time the Constitution aimed a broad rights guarantee directly at the states.

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The clause's reach grew case by case, not all at once.