The Fifth Amendment

This Amendment was passed by Congress on September 25, 1789 and was ratified by the states December 15, 1789. It is a part of the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments of the Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights which was established in the seventeenth and eighteenth century English common law. Aside from the rest of the amendments in the Bill of Rights the Fourth Amendment can be traced back to a strong public reaction from some cases back in the 1760s. Two of these cases happened in England and one case happened in the colonies. These cases involved some pamphleteers who would pass out pamphlets to the public in order to spread their word around. These pamphlets however ridiculed the king and his ministers. After finding this out the king issued warrants to have the pamphleteer’s homes ransacked and stripped of all their books and papers. Even back then the pamphleteers knew that their rights

or public danger. No one can be put on trial again for the same crime.

In my life no one has ever made the attempt to censor my speech or written word. I have never been imprisoned with or without a speedy trial. No soldier has ever been quartered in my home and property has never been confiscated. No lawsuit has ever been brought against me and certainly not one where I am dealing with a corrupt judge. This is a testament to the power and enduring strength of the constitution, its existence negates its applicability to my life. However, this only continues to be the truth as long as a well educated population makes the constant choice between individual rights and expediency, between freedom and security. I fear that the seventh amendment is falling victim to a lack of such necessary vigilance and examination.

The Amendments give us many rights and protects us from a lot of things. Such as from the government abusing us and use cruel and unusual punishment. The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments especially help with protecting us from abuse and mistreating. Without these Amendments, we would not be able to have the freedom that we have today.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees some very basic rights to any citizen who is accused of a crime. The biggest right of all is the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. In other words, until and unless it can be proven without any doubt that you committed a crime, you will be considered not guilty.

The 6th amendment is the amendment where a person is able to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury in the state or district crime is committed, can get informed about why you are in court, you also have a right to an attorney if you cannot afford one then one should be appointed to you. i will also be explain how even the people who are not even united states citizens have the right to the sixth amendment. There are major cases that i will go over that will help cement what the sixth amendment is how it can make or break a case. How the case has changed with everything that is going on in the United States so i will talk about that.

Each amendment of the Bill of Rights grants us different rights. The First Amendment gives us freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, the ability to peacefully assemble, and the right to petition the government. The Second gives us the right to bear arms and maintain militias. The Third makes it so that we don’t have to house soldiers in our homes without our consent. The Fourth protects us from unreasonable searches or seizures of ourselves or our possessions. The Fifth gives us the right to due process, gives us the right to a fair trial, protects us from double jeopardy, protects us from incriminating ourselves, and doesn’t allow for the government to seize our property without paying us the market value. The Sixth gives us the right to have a trial by jury and gives us the other rights of the accused. The Seventh allows for us to have a civil trial by jury. The Eighth prohibits the use of excessive bail and prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The Ninth protects rights that aren’t enumerated in the Constitution, which just means that it protects the rights that have been inferred from other legal rights. The Tenth Amendment makes it so that powers that aren’t given to the United States government by the Constitution are given to the states or the people, unless the powers are prohibited to the

or public danger. No one can be put on trial again for the same crime.

The first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights. First Amendment: protects the rights of Americans to worship as they please, or to have no religion if they prefer; freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Second Amendment: ensures citizens and the nation the right to security. Third Amendment: prohibits the government from forcing people to quarter - to provide shelter for - soldiers in their homes. Fourth Amendment: reflects the early Americans’ desire to protect their privacy.

There were ten amendments added to the Constitution that provide citizens with unalienable rights, such as the right to bear arms, remain silent so as not to incriminate oneself in court, to defend against search and seizure, among several others. This paper will focus on the First Amendment:

The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." Due process is one of many protections the Bill of Rights gives citizens against the government, and being a ‘process’ the term suggests a procedure in its method of protection. “The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven words, called the Due Process Clause, to describe a legal obligation of all states. These words have as their central promise an assurance that all levels of American government must operate within the law ("legality") and provide fair procedures (Strauss, n.d.).” The Fifth Amendment limits the power of the federal government and the Fourteenth Amendment specifically limits the power of state (and local) governments.

The 4th amendment It requires governmental searches and seizures to be conducted only upon issuance of a warrant. The 5th amendment protects us by we don’t half to say anything that might incriminate ourselves in anyway. The 6th amendment The supreme court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states through the due process clause of the fourteenth Amendment. The 8th amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing

The Fifth amendment was made, in 1791. to make sure that no one could be tried for the same reason more than once. This was important to include it in the declaration of independence to protect the rights of the criminally accused and to influence the people’s rights to life, liberty, and property. In the Chambers vs Florida case, men were accused of a murder because of their skin color and were proved innocent and this was considered violated do to the fifth amendment. In another case called Ashcraft v. Tennessee, had included a man who was a suspect of the tennessee police and was then forced to a false confession by them, in an interrogation, which violated his wright given by the fifth amendment. In a similar case called Miranda v. Arizona, a man was sent to an interrogation and was not notified of his rights with a warning, which violates the

Explain the details of what the Fifth Amendment provides citizens and its use of it in the 2012 Meningitis Outbreak?