The fundamental right having greatest relevance to administrative law is expressed inboth the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments，the assuranc that no person（here，includingartificial persons）may be“deprived of life，liberty，or property without due process of law”.In their procedural aspect'these eleven words are the source of all fundamental claims aboutfair procedure in our legal system.We have already seen a little.about the evolvingunderstanding of these words，in the text above at notes 10 to 14.Here it may be appropriateto give more attention to issues of doctrinal structure. While the text of the due process clause is extremely general，the fact that it is（uniquely）expressed twice in the Constitution strongly suggests an understanding that itswords state a central proposition about the requirements of legal order.Historically，the clausereflects the Magna Carta of Great Britain，both its expression of principles of legality and itsparticular assurance that all would receive the ordinary processes（procedures）of law.Theyalso echo that country’s seventeenth century struggles for political and legal regularity，andthe American colonies’strong insistence during the pre.revolutionary period on observance of.
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