<span>It means that citizens "cannot be </span>compelled
to affirm and testify against them, leaving the weight of demonstrating that a man has
carried out a wrongdoing to the administration".
<span>At a
criminal trial, it isn't just the respondent who appreciates the Fifth Amendment
right not to affirm. Witnesses who are called to the testimony box can decline
to answer certain inquiries if replying would ensnare them in a criminal
action.</span>
The "Gospel of Wealth' was meant to be invested into charities and be an 'example to the poor'
It would be "Whether a new state or territory should enter the Union as Free or Slave" that had the most impact on the Civil War, since the North was strongly against the spread of slavery, while the South was in favor of it.
They found it necessary to ask for financial assistance because they didn't have any one or thing to support them