[SunkenCiv]

Populist America's commentary:

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bullwark" -- Walter Lippman

The Fifth Amendment was written to protect an accused from abuses witnessed throughout history, including in the early days of Colonial America. The founding fathers wished to ensure that, while trials could be conducted and guilty criminals punished, innocent men and women wouldn't suffer by mere government whim. Sufficient evidence of criminal conduct would have to be presented to a Grand Jury; the government couldn't repeatedly try an individual on the same charges until he or she was either convicted or financially exhausted; it couldn't demand answers from the accused, but rather would have to provide sufficient evidence to convict without such testimony; and it couldn't simply snatch property it wanted or needed from its owner.

[SunkenCiv]

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[EternalVigilance]

No person shall be...deprived of life...without due process of law...

And yet, another 5000 plus innocent persons are brutally murdered in America every day. And the perpetrators aren't prosecuted, they are protected.

This provision is the heart of the Bill of Rights.

They've cut the heart out of the principles that once made this the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[SunkenCiv]

Double jeopardy in before US Supreme Court
news.aol.com/article | 03/21/09 | JUAN A. LOZANO
Posted on 03/21/2009 10:59:37 AM PDT by rgr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211560/posts

Soldier cleared of murder in civilian court 18 years ago
to face court-martial in the deaths
NCTimes | August 17, 2007 | MIKE BAKER - Associated Press
Posted on 08/18/2007 7:00:37 AM PDT by brityank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883019/posts

[bigheadfred]

I really like these posts. It’s too bad they don’t teach some of this stuff in schools. Like law schools.

[OneWingedShark]

This mirror some of the thought, a different angle admittedly though, that I express here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dv698tm_22dr6x3nfb

[Kevmo]

I recently had a run-in with some bureaucrats and it caused me to look up the 5th amendment.

nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself

It appears that their position is that a person can be compelled to be a witness against himself in a NON-criminal case. I think it’s an outrage, but who can fight city hall?