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Procedural due process guarantees to individual members of the polity that government will treat each of them with fairness and respect when seeking to take their life, liberty, or property. Although enshrined in the US Constitution''s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the scope of those guarantees has long been a source of public and academic debate.Due Process as American Democracy develops an entirely new approach to the procedural due process, grounded in foundational precepts of American political theory. It argues that American political thought comes from an adversarial understanding of democracy where individuals need to protect their own interests, because no one else can be trusted to do so. This skeptical democracy informs the separation of powers and operates as the protector of liberal democracy. When applied to procedural due process, adversary democracy dictates a skepticism of both judges and those who seek unilaterally to represent the individuals'' interests. The end r

Due Process As American Democracy

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
    Publication Date: 3/22/2024
    ISBN13: 9780197747414, 978-0197747414
    ISBN10: 0197747418

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Procedural due process guarantees to individual members of the polity that government will treat each of them with fairness and respect when seeking to take their life, liberty, or property. Although enshrined in the US Constitution''s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the scope of those guarantees has long been a source of public and academic debate.Due Process as American Democracy develops an entirely new approach to the procedural due process, grounded in foundational precepts of American political theory. It argues that American political thought comes from an adversarial understanding of democracy where individuals need to protect their own interests, because no one else can be trusted to do so. This skeptical democracy informs the separation of powers and operates as the protector of liberal democracy. When applied to procedural due process, adversary democracy dictates a skepticism of both judges and those who seek unilaterally to represent the individuals'' interests. The end r

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