Due process of law, or at least its absence, is the heart of the unconstitutional lawfare aimed at Donald Trump this week in a New York courtroom, ostensibly for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
The right to due process is over 1,000 years old in English jurisprudence.
In virtually all those conflicts, a government's systemically denying its citizens' due process rights was at the conflict's heart.
The British freemen's right to due process of law appeared first in the Magna Carta of 1215, when the tyrant King John was imprisoning men and extorting their lands and possessions.
Due Process of law was reaffirmed as an Englishman's right in the English Bill of Rights of 1689 after the English deposed James I for dispensing with those rights and ruling as a tyrant.
America's Founders wrote "Due process of law" into both the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The defendant then has several additional due process rights to ensure that he is treated fairly, including the right to trial by a jury of his peers.
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