Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

landmark cases that have sent precedent for the United States. The case Plessy versus Ferguson supported and encouraged segregation in the late 1800s. The case Brown versus Board of Education rejected this doctrine when an African-American child was declined admission into a white only school. These two cases still effect the United States and many Americans, today. The case of Plessy versus Ferguson supported the doctrine “separate but equal.” The 14th Amendment guarantees citizens “equal…

other document has maintained an equally important and ever changing role in our government than the United States Constitution. The Constitution drew the plans for the creation the three branches of government and provided the structure on which the national government would grow. The most famous aspect of the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison as a response to the States’ demands that individual liberties be provided and protected, the Bill of Rights serves to…

that the Constitution not only is used by the government, but also for the benefit of the citizens. For example, the Town of Greece was targeted by Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens…

Instead, children feel undervalued and disrespected. As 11th grade student, Kendall Anderson stated in her essay, “We should not underestimate our youth” (Adelstein, “Banned Book Week Essay Contest Winners”). Another student, eighth grader Brandon Redlinger, stated in his essay, “Reading is one of our greatest freedoms. Censorship leads to conformity. This limits the range and variety of inquiry and expression on which our culture depends” (Adelstein, “Banned Book Week Essay…

Danville, Virginia, was pronounced dead by lethal-injection at approximately 9:13 p.m. (Crawford 74). Being that 46 executions took place in 2010, Teresa Lewis’s case would seem indifferentiable to the others; however, evaluations of Lewis’s mental state incited controversy based on the morality of her case (“The Death Penalty…”). The controversy erupted after Lewis’s defense lawyer filed a position for clemency briefly after disclosing that she had an I.Q. of 72, providing the justification…

The Eighth Amendment, which forbids unnecessary fines and bails as well as cruel and unusual punishment, was included in the Constitution because the British’s ways of punishment angered the Founding Fathers of the constitution and they wanted to be sure that the government’s power would not be abused and to prevent any future problems arising in areas of justice. The framers of the constitution, when writing the Eighth Amendment, took into consideration cases where severe punishments such…

Rights to every American is the crown jewel center piece of our constitution and from which just about all legal proceedings are based from. Akhil Reed Amar's "The Bill of Rights as a constitution" pages 1131-1210 and 1193-1284, details and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the Bill of Rights. Amendments such as the fifth, ninth, and tenth are currently the sole topic of college courses such as Constitutional Law, the sixth, eighth, and a majority of the fifth are taught in Criminal…

segregation violate their rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United…

counterfeiting. In 1767 the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria, published On Crimes and Punishment. Beccaria's exposition on abolishing capital punishment was influential and had a strong impact on others. He believed that there was no justification for the state to take a life. "He said that the death penalty was "a war of a whole nation against a citizen, whose destruction they consider as necessary, or useful to the general good" (Reggio, n.d.). Soon after Beccaria’s theory became publicized,…

The ordinance was argued by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in argument that it violated their first amendment rights of free exercise of religion, freedom of press, and the right to free speech. In the ordinance established by the Stratton local legislature, it restricted “canvassers” from going door to door. Canvassers were political campaign works who…