On the other hand the Bill of Rights states that no one "shall be compelled to bear witness against himself in any criminal proceeding." Any person falsely or accurately accused of a crime is not required to provide evidence pointing to the person in question. Another similarity that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen has with the Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights is the Seventeenth Article which states similarly to the Fifth Amendment that private property may not be used for public use without proper reason and without some form of