Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

are several Amendments within the United States Constitution twenty-seven to be exact, that have a noticeable impact on the way criminal offenders are processed through the criminal justice system in America. There are few of the rights guaranteed to criminal defendants by the U.S. Constitution that have a more tangible impact on the handling of offenders throughout the criminal justice system in the United States. These Amendments are the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and the 14th Amendments of the US…

between central government and states 2. Lobbying- A group of persons engaged in trying to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of a specific cause 3. Proportional representation voting systems- A party wins seat depending on what percentage they win. 4. Single-member, simple plurality voting systems (or “Winner-takes- All” electoral systems)- Person with the most votes wins. 5. Political Action Committee (PACs)- is any organization in the United States that campaigns for…

American philosophies, developed during the Enlightenment era. It was incorporated into the constitution by the seventh amendment, outlining court and legal procedures, along with the fifth, sixth, and eighth. It states that the right to a trial by jury shall be preserved, and any trial without a jury will be examined by the supreme court, than the rules of the common law. It is a fundamental part of the United States legal system, because it means that the court system cannot send innocent…

set of ten laws that was created for socialist or communist states. The Laws that are written in the Ten Planks of Communist Manifesto are in favor of government power or dictatorship, so the people who have to live by these are not living free. They were created to start a communist movement. The Bill of Rights, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments in the United States Constitution, which was written in 1791. It consist of ten laws,…

collection of the first ten amendments that were drafted by James Madison. Each amendment was passed by congress on September 25, 1789 and ratified on December 15, 1791. Madison originally drafted only seventeen amendments. Of the seventeen, five were rejected and only ten from the remaining twelve were ratified. Although the original Bill of Rights pertained only to land-owning white men, all men were granted protections of the constitution with the help of the Fourteenth Amendment. In today’s…

federal highway funds from States "in which the purchase or public possession . . . of any alcoholic beverage by a person who is less than twenty-one years of age is lawful." South Dakota, which permits persons 19 years old or older to purchase beer containing up to 3.2% alcohol, sued in Federal District Court for a declaratory judgment that § 158 violates the constitutional limitations on congressional exercise of the spending power under Art. I, § 8, cl. 1, of the Constitution, and violates…

Cabinet. The President acts as Head of State, which is the Chief Representative of the United States. The Cabinet is appointed by the President and carries out the duties of the Executive office under the authority of the President. There are multiple government agency’s that the president appoints the heads of, including the CIA, EPA and many more, the President also appoints the head of over 50 independent government agencies. The Twenty-fifth Amendment provides procedures to replace the…

The Constitution is a living document that holds the basic set-up for the United States’ government and the laws by which citizens should abide. One of the main elements of the Constitution are its focus on the powers to limit the three branches’ powers. Specifically, the legislative branch’s limits are expanded upon greater than the judicial or executive branch. Another element that has grown from the Constitution is the expansion of presidential power due to special circumstances. The other…

1991and has since been changed to “The Independent Commission”. In the Rodney King case an example of what the commission examined and found was the officers did not comply with the Los Angeles police guidelines nor the state of California laws regarding the use of force The state penal code and the Los Angeles procedures require that the force that is used must be reasonable, and the officer feels threaten my use force to control an individual. The commission also found that white officers were…

have been a total of one-hundred twelve Justices of the United States Supreme Court. It is recognized as the highest legal body in the land, and as such, the Justices of this Court are all extremely well respected. All members of this hallowed institution have rightly earned the designation as significant legal scholars. The notion has been put forward that Justice Antonin Scalia is the most significant member of the Court in United States history. This is an exaggeration to say the least.…