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What Is “Due Process” and Why Does It Matter?

K-5
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Learning Objectives

  • Read the Bill of Rights and explain the freedoms it guarantees
  • Analyze primary source materials
  • Use evidence to answer the question, “What is “due process” and why does it matter?”  
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Overview

Historians study sources. In this lesson, students will learn the meaning of due process, where due process rights are in the Constitution, and the history of where American due process rights came from.

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