Article: Due Process of Law: A Brief History.(Book Review)

Due Process of Law: A Brief History. By John V. Orth. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xi, 116. $9.95.)

In this succinct and elegantly reasoned study of due process of law, the author explores one of the most complex and mutable concepts in our constitutional heritage. The idea of due process originated in medieval England, but its manifestations in modern American law are very much alive.

John V. Orth focuses on two due process maxims: one shall not be a judge in one's own cause, and the law shall not take from A to give to B. Both are problematic today: in our regulatory, entitlement-filled nation, the government often sits as a ...

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