ABSTRACT
Like so many principles of our legal system, the content of due process is a historical product that traces its roots all the way back to the Magna Carta. In Chapter 39 of this historic document King John promised that “[n]o free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
