Country Foundations

Due process of law

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 10. In the US Constitution: 5th / 14th Amendment.

Constitutions declaring it
105 / 158
US declares it
100%
US practices it
78%

Does declaring it change anything?

Distribution of practiced scores, split by whether the constitution declares the right. If the two distributions look alike, the words on the page are not doing much work on their own.

Constitutions that declare it (105)
0100
Constitutions that are silent (47)
0100

Mean practiced score: 52% where declared, versus 60% where silent.

What the text actually says

Passages tagged with this topic, from the Constitute Project.

United States
Amendment V

Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Section 1

Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Country by country

CountryDeclaredPracticed
Afghanistan100%14%
Albania100%61%
Algeria100%41%
Angola100%52%
Argentina100%62%
Armenia100%59%
Azerbaijan100%36%
Bahrain100%39%
Bangladesh100%28%
Barbados100%66%
Belarus100%29%
Bhutan100%74%
Bolivia100%56%
Bosnia and Herzegovina100%56%
Brazil100%69%
Bulgaria100%56%
Burma/Myanmar100%27%
Cambodia100%25%
Canada100%76%
Central African Republic100%27%
Chad100%23%
China100%38%
Colombia100%59%
Comoros100%44%
Croatia100%56%
Cuba100%26%
Democratic Republic of the Congo100%42%
Dominican Republic100%55%
Ecuador100%53%
Egypt100%29%
Eritrea100%23%
Estonia100%88%
Eswatini100%29%
Ethiopia100%39%
Fiji100%61%
Finland100%88%
Gabon100%73%
Ghana100%54%
Guatemala100%42%
Guinea100%29%
Guinea-Bissau100%44%
Guyana100%51%
Honduras100%58%
Hungary100%48%
Indonesia100%47%
Iraq100%41%
Italy100%68%
Ivory Coast100%56%
Jamaica100%70%
Kazakhstan100%45%
Kenya100%63%
Kosovo100%63%
Liberia100%48%
Lithuania100%65%
Madagascar100%41%
Malawi100%67%
Maldives100%56%
Malta100%65%
Mauritania100%46%
Mauritius100%45%