Michael W. McConnell

Essay

Due Process as Separation of Powers

121 Yale L.J. 1672 (2012). From its conceptual origin in Magna Charta, due process of law has required that government can deprive persons of rights only pursuant to a coordinated effort of separate institutions that make, execute, and adjudicate claims under the law. Originalist debates about whether the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments were understood to entail modern “substantive due process”...

May 2, 2012