Fifth Amendment
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WHAT IS THE FIFTH AMENDMENT ABOUT?
- protects American citizens from potential government abuse relating to criminal cases
- five clauses
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FIVE CLAUSES
- Grand Jury
- Double Jeopardy
- Self Incrimination
- Due Process
- Just Compensation
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WHY WAS THE FIFTH AMENDMENT ADDED?
- America just won the Revolutionary War
- wanted to avoid a monarchy/ all powerful government
- wanted to escape the tyranny of England's form of government
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HOW IT HAS HELPED
- each of the five clauses protects our rights
- right to remain silent
- still important today
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MIRANDA V. ARIZONA
- legendary case
- Arizona accused of violating Ernesto Miranda's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights
- Ernesto Miranda charged and put in jail for eleven years
- established the Mirands rights, the right to remain silent
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