Due process and Magna Carta.

• Author: Redlich, Warren
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

I very much enjoyed Leonard Klingen's article tracing due process back to the Magna Carta. However, I was disappointed that he focused on procedural due process.

Substantive due process places further limits on government and the laws it enacts. It "forbids the government to infringe certain 'fundamental' liberty interests at all, no matter what process is provided, unless the infringement is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state...