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Procedural Rights. “The history of liberty has largely been the history
of observance of procedural safeguards.” We agree with ...
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Submitted by sgray on March 19, 2008
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“The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.” We agree with this quote because our country is based on the right to have our guaranteed protection of life, liberty and property. Two of the greatest procedural guarantees that insure liberty are the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. According to the Fifth Amendment, a capital crime is punishable by death, while an infamous crime is punishable by death or imprisonment. This amendment guarantees that no one has to stand trial for such a federal crime unless indicted by a grand jury. Further, a person cannot be put in double jeopardy for the same offense by the same government. The amendment also guarantees that a person cannot be forced to testify against himself, and forbids the government from taking a person’s property for public use without fair payment. Finally, this amendment deals with the “due process of law” for which it is probably best know. The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment states that private property cannot be taken by the government for public use without just compensation to the property owner. The drafters of the Bill of Rights included a takings clause to address outright physical appropriations of private property, such as government expropriation of private land for the paving of roads, since colonial governments’ often confiscated private property for public projects without paying its owners. Because certain seventeenth century English courts forced confessions of heresy from religious dissenters, the framers of the Bill of Rights, were careful to include in the Fifth Amendment the provision that a person has the right to remain silent, and shall not be compelled to testify against himself in a criminal prosecution, it has also been interpreted to protect anyone questioned by a government agency, including a congressional committee. The grand jury determines whether a person can be tried for a crime. Guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, the...
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