[Hazcat]

If someone has been committed involuntarily to a mental institution, then that person must have been adjudicated mentally ill, in a court of law. In other words, they were given due process. Their rights were not arbitrarily stripped from them, simply because they sought medical treatment for depression, etc., at some point in the past.

Not really. In FL we have this thing called the 'Baker Act' were in I can have you involuntarily locked up for 72 hrs for a mental evaluation. No due process needed.

[holymoly]

were in I can have you involuntarily locked up for 72 hrs for a mental evaluation

Held for evaluation is not the same as being committed.