Due process is the mechanism by which the Constitution restrains government power. And yet, across the American criminal justice system, due process is increasingly treated as negotiable, procedural rather than fundamental, symbolic rather than binding.
The question is no longer whether due process is provided by statute. It does.
The question is whether it exists in practice.
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Constitutional systems are not defined solely by power. They are defined by restraint. Authority exists within limits, and those limits matter most when they are inconvenient.
When executive power begins to disregard legal boundaries, when enforcement agencies operate with diminished accountability, and when courts defer rather than constrain, the system does not merely bend. It changes character.
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