![The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-framers-of-the-constitution-created-the-federally-protected-right-of.jpg)
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