Due Process

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Chapter 20

• Section 1

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Due Process

• The US government cannot act in an unfair manner
  or disobey established rules.
• Substantive due process deals with the procedures
  of government action and procedural due process
  deals with the policies of government action.
• People must be given due process.

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Police Power

• The States have police power which is the
  authority to protect and promote the public
  safety.
• The police power sometimes conflicts with civil
  rights protection.
• Drinking and driving has been a big debate.
• The courts have always come down on the side of
  the police.

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Police Power

• States can limit the sale of alcoholic beverages
  and tobacco.
• States can forbid concealed weapons, and require
  the use of seatbelts.
• States can outlaw gambling and the sale of
  obscene materials.

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Right Of Privacy

• People have the right to be free from unwanted
  government intrusions into ones private life.
• Roe v Wade was the landmark case in this right.
• This gave women the right to have an abortion is
  the first trimester and limited abortions in the
  second trimester.