What is meant by "taking the fifth?"

A common expression used when someone invokes his or her Fifth Amendment right that protects from self-incrimination, pleading the fifth prevents you from being forced to testify against yourself during a criminal trial.

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the police can stop you because you are still underage. dont do it you will serve time in jail.

answer:   system of auburn. this american penitentiary system relied on the rehabilitation of the inmates by solitary confinment, locating them in separated cells, and with the prohibition of talking withing each other. this system, popular in the 19th century, was based on forced silence, in a concept know as “sense of self”.