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=== United States === {{Main|Due Process Clause}} The [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendments]] to the [[United States Constitution]] each contain a [[Due Process Clause]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-11-04|title=The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription|url=https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript|access-date=2021-09-22|website=National Archives|language=en}}</ref> Due process deals with the administration of justice and thus the Due Process Clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the government outside the sanction of law.<ref name="PAMadisonDPC">{{cite web |last=Madison |first=P. A. |title=Historical Analysis of the Meaning of the 14th Amendment's First Section |url=http://www.federalistblog.us/mt/articles/14th_dummy_guide.htm#due |publisher=The Federalist Blog |access-date=19 January 2013|date=2 August 2010}}</ref> The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] interprets the clauses as providing four protections: [[procedural due process]] (in civil and criminal proceedings), [[substantive due process]], a prohibition against [[void for vagueness|vague laws]], and as the vehicle for the [[incorporation of the Bill of Rights]].
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