Fifth Amendmentin a sentence
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The protections of the Fifth Amendment can be traced back to English common law and the Magna Carta.
Fifth Amendment = imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes and requires just compensation if private property is taken for public use
- We stand on the Fifth Amendment.† (source)
- Being young and foolish, and knowing he was right, he rejected the possibility of taking the Fifth Amendment, or the First, or the First and Ninth and Fourteenth, or any other of the usual options, and instead he made a speech.† (source)
- Why don't you stand on the Fifth Amendment?† (source)
- I know what the Fifth Amendment is, Mr. Calhoune.† (source)
- I'm willing to let you stand on the Fifth Amendment.† (source)
- "I stand on the Fifth Amendment," I squeaked, "on thegrounds that my answer may tend to incriminate me."† (source)
- I'm standing on the Fifth Amendment.† (source)