Origins of the Fifth Amendment

Origins of the Fifth Amendment
Origins of the Fifth Amendment; The Right against Self-Incrimination  
Author(s) Leonard W. Levy
Subject(s) Legal history, Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 1968
Pages 561
OCLC Number 439176

Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy Oxford University Press, 1968, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1969. It followed in the wake of the 1966 United States Supreme Court Opinion Miranda v. Arizona. The book was reissued in 1986 and 1999.



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