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If there is one thing that the people are entitled to expect from their lawmakers, it is rules of law that will enable individuals to tell whether they are married and, if so, to whom.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (1948)

  
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State Due Process Clause

  
 


United States Constitution

Amend. XIV

     Section 1. … [N]or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ….

Citation: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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