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Fifth Amendment

Further Readings



Helmholz, R.H. 1983. "The Early History of the Grand Jury and the Canon Law." University of Chicago Law Review 50 (spring).

Hickok, Eugene W., Jr., ed. 1991. The Bill of Rights: Original Meaning and Current Understanding. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia.

Mermelstein, Mark, and Joel M. Athey. 2002. "In the Fifth Dimension: Problems Faced by Trial Lawyers When a Witness Invokes the Fifth Amendment." Los Angeles Lawyer 25 (October).

Roxas, Angela. 2002. "Questions Unanswered: the Fifth Amendment and Innocent Witnesses." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 93 (fall).

Treanor, William M. 1995. "The Original Understanding of the Takings Clause and the Political Process." Columbia Law Review 95 (May).

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