it was a way to combat the pressures and to permit a full opportunity to exercise the privilege against self incrimination
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The amendments to the Constitution that protect individual freedoms include the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, religion, and the press; the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; the Fifth Amendment, which ensures due process and protection against self-incrimination; and the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law.
None of the Amendments to the US Constitution refer to incorporation directly; however, the US Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses to apply the Bill of Rights to the States (incorporation). For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Protection from self-incrimination ensures due process during questioning. A police officer cannot rush questioning a suspect in case he intimidates the suspect into false confessions. This ensures that when questioning is brought to the courtroom it is admissible and fair.
protection against self-incrimination
The Bill of Rights is the name granted the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. These amendments protects all of the following: freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms for the purpose of a well-regulated militia, the right to privacy in the home in the context of peacetime housing of soldiers and requiring warrants for searches, the right to protection against self-incrimination, the right to a fair trial, and the right to protection against excessive bails and fines, as well as from unusual punishments. The ninth and tenth amendments cover more legalese coverings, mostly that the amendments are not an exhaustive list of all the rights possessed by the people, and that the states have powers as long as they're not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution.
Without protection from self-incrimination, law enforcement agents might take advantage of suspects. They might try to intimidate a suspect into confessing just to hurry the investigation along. The suspect would not be able to get out of the investigation and could be forced into a false confession.
The fifth amendment provides the protection from self incrimination.
The right to remain silent is a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
The Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Invoking the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which provides protection from self-incrimination. It means you do not have to answer a question, if you feel it may incriminate (make you appear guilty) you.
The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments of the US Constitution deal specifically with rights of a defendant accused of a crime. The Fourteenth Amendment indirectly deals with such rights because it makes some but not all of the rights in the above amendments applicable to the states.