fifth amendment

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• - Includes information on the eminent domain clause in the Fifth Amendment, which states that a municipality may seize property only after "just" compensation.
  
• - The Reason Foundation explores in depth the debate over taking private property for public use, with links to numerous resources related to the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
  
• - Provides a list of court cases over the past century where the Fifth Amendment played a central role in the case.
  
• - A resource on "Self incrimination" that also provides annotations.
  
• - Provides encyclopedic background information and common misconceptions regarding this device for warning people that they do not have to incriminate themselves.
  
• - Provides information on Fifth Amendment/material witness issues and how they relate to the War on Terror.
  
• - Information on mandatory gun registration and the infamous U.S. v. Haynes (1968) supreme court case.
  
• - Provides that no person can be compelled to give evidence against them in divorce proceedings.
  
• - Provides information on the legality of taxes and rights of the IRS, a common Fifth Amendment controversy.
  
  

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