The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which guarantee that no person shall “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” incorporated the model of the rule of law that English and American lawyers associated most closely with Magna Carta for centuries.n his defense of the amendment before Congress, Bingham argued that it was the fulfillment of the Constitution’s promised enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. Enlarge. John Armor Bingham. One Country, One Constitution, and One People [speech of Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives].