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Doesn't America have some rule against being compelled to provide evidence of your guilt?

• personjerry 10y ago
  It's mentioned right in the article - Fifth Amendment
  • dleslie 10y ago
    Ah, that's what that is. The amendments are not recognizable to me by number alone.
    • dbg31415 10y ago
      Oversimplified: 1st - We can say whatever the fuck we want. We can religion. We don't have to fight for our right to party. 2nd - We can have guns. 3rd - We don't gotta share our beds with soldiers. 4th - We don't gotta open the door for the cops. 5th - We don't gotta say shit to the cops. 6th - We can have lawyers. 7th - We can have jury trials. 8th - When we fuck up, the punishment for me is the same as it would be for you. 9th - If there isn't an explicit law against it, then we can do it. 10th - If it's not explicitly made a federal issue in the constitution, then it's a state issue. Reading these... it's hard not to be very proud of how much they got right back in 1791. And pissed off at how much they aren't getting right today.
• mhurron 10y ago
  There are limits to that and the Government keeps attempting to increase the limits of the 5th amendment in regards to electronic documents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/06/07/the-fifth-amendment-limits-on-forced-decryption-and-applying-the-foregone-conclusion-doctrine/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... Above is another article on the same case.
• ZoFreX 10y ago
  Yes, with exceptions. One exception being the "foregone conclusion doctrine".