FIFTH AMENDMENT
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
reads:
No person shall be held to answer for a cap-
ital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on
a presentment or indictment of a Grand
Jury, except in cases arising in the land or
naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual
service in time of War or public danger; nor
shall any person be subject for the same
offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or
limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal
case to be a witness against himself, nor be
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall private property
be taken for public use, without just com-
pensation.
The BILL OF RIGHTS, which consists of the
first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
enumerates certain basic personal liberties. Laws
passed by elected officials that infringe on these
liberties are invalidated by the judiciary as
unconstitutional. The Fifth Amendment to the
Constitution, ratified in 1791, represents five
distinct liberties the that Framers attempted to
