The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment serves three distinct functions in modern constitutional doctrine, in the words of the Supreme Court in 1986: “First, it incorporates [against ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be ...

Many of the federal Supreme Court’s worst rulings are justified by the 14th Amendment – everything from anchor ...

The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...

Lochner was fined $50 and sued, eventually winning in the U.S. Supreme Court based on the 14th Amendment’s due process clause. “The general right to make a contract in relation to his business ...

See State Action Clause (Amendment XIV, Section 1). Second, modern law holds that the word “deprived” in the Due Process Clause means an intentional (or, at a minimum, a reckless) taking of a ...