CLEP American Government
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Due process
When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party, usually the result of winning a critical election.
When neither political party is dominant more and more citizens have become disenchanted with the major parties.
The Fourteenth Amendment principle requires state government to respect all civil liberties guaranteed to a person under the Constitution and US law, such as protection of citizens from being sent to prison without a trial. In addition to respecting all legal rights given to a citizen under the law, due process also means that the government cannot take away people's rights until due process has been applied.
Programs that seek to compensate for past discrimination by giving special attention in hiring, and in college/university admissions, to people from the groups discriminated against