Amendments V and VI


[Volume 5, Page 247]

Document 6

Delaware Charter of 1701, ARTS. 5, 6

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V.

That all Criminals shall have the same Privileges of Witnesses and Council as their Prosecutors.

VI.

That no Person or Persons shall or may, at any Time hereafter, be obliged to answer any Complaint, Matter or Thing whatsoever, relating to Property, before the Governor and Council, or in any other Place, but in ordinary Course of Justice, unless Appeals thereunto shall be hereafter by Law appointed.


The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendments V and VI, Document 6
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendV-VI_criminal_processs6.html
The University of Chicago Press

Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. 7 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909.