The 5th and 14th Amendments of the US Constitution grants the right of due process to every citizen. At one time in our history, we knew what words meant. But as those in power seek more power, we have learned to expand the meaning of words in order to expand authority. Substantive due process now exists because the word "process" has been expanded to include "rights." This idea gives courts the ability to now act as policy makers and a secondary legislative branch by using the 14th Amendment to expand rights it deems appropriate to all Americans. Substantive due process is the mechanism by which courts have made abortion, marriage and now education not state, but federal issues. It is inherently an expansion of government.

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