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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, 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 offense 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 compensation.
and here are eight reasons to never talk to the police, not even if you're innocent and have only God's honest truth to tell.
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Good things often happen very slowly: 200 years ago today it became illegal to import slaves into the United States; 145 years ago today, all slaves in Confederate territory were freed.
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If you've forgotten your basic Constitutional principles, here's an introduction from a reliable source: James McClellan: Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government (1989).
That's at the Online Liberty Library at the Liberty Fund; here's an obituary of James McClellan, who died in 2005.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos
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