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'Pleading the Fifth' invokes a constitutional amendment that has a long history in US society

'Pleading the Fifth' invokes a constitutional amendment that has a long history in US society
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It was important enough to the framers of the U.S. Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights — that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” As part of the Fifth Amendment, the right against self-incrimination is...

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