Mississippi 'Personhood' Law Could Cause Legal Mayhem, Experts Warn

US Constituti­on. 14th Amendment. Section 1 (due process clause) prohibits state and local government­s from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness. This clause has been used to make most of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states, as well as to recognize substantiv­e and procedural rights: "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."
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