Due process refers to the legal requirement that the government must follow fair procedures when it seeks to restrict or condemn someone's property rights, ensuring notice and an opportunity for affected parties to be heard.
A constitutional guarantee embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ensuring that no state shall deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed constitutional amendment designed to guarantee that sex not be the basis for any legal decisions or distinctions. Despite not being ratified by a sufficient number of states to become a constitutional amendment, the principles of the ERA have influenced numerous statutes and judicial rulings.
Constitutional, statutory, or judicial law developed by governments and applied equally to the general public. Contrast with Private Law.
