Description

Due process of law is one of the most basic, important, and often complicated issues that protects us from the government and guarantees (to some degree) fair trials.  The video discusses a variety of details about the right to due process, including double jeopardy, self-incrimination, just compensation, juries, right to an attorney, the Miranda case, and others.

Discussion Questions

• What did you find most surprising or interesting?
• What are some of the basic rights of due process that the constitution gives us?  List and discuss as many as you can?
• Why is the Miranda case, and education in general, so important?
• What are some of the costs to all of these laws and bureaucracy?  What are the benefits?
• What, if any, are some of the problems with the current set of rights?  Do you think we should be given additional rights of due process?

Keywords: government, politics, law, constitution, rights, due process, legal system, fairness, trials, justice, freedom, liberty