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Originally Posted by #-3
I know a lot of people more knowledge about US law than me have said this before, but it seems dumb to me.
We as a society have a principal of not coercing testimony, unless we write you a nice little get out of jail free note.
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The fifth is about giving testimony that would incriminate yourself, and if pardoned then one can't incriminate one's self anymore (assuming the testimony is in relation to what you were pardoned for).
That's the idea as I understand it anyway.