Interpretation of the eighth amendment
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The Eighth Amendment prohibits “excessive bail and fines” and restrains impositions of “cruel and unusual punishment.” Court decisions defining cruel and unusual punishment involve interpretation of the Eighth Amendment and its application to state death penalty statutes over time. The cruel and unusual clause has been invoked by opponents of capital punishment (the death penalty) to ...
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Introduction to Statutory Interpretation. I. Introduction. As the concept of “income” discussed in Chapter 1 suggests, tax law depends critically on the interpretation of words. In Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co., 348 U.S. 426 (1955), Chief Justice Warren stated that the U.S. Supreme Court had given a “liberal construction” to the “broad phraseology” of the basic charging sectio
[DOC File]Interpreting the Constitution: Eight Approaches
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Sometimes the reformulation is broad, as in these cases, but other times the approach can lead to a narrowing of interpretation, as in the case of the Fifth Amendment’s protections. Case law has evolved toward a prohibition only of “self-incrimination,” although the actual wording would appear to lend itself to a much broader understanding. This approach is potentially dangerous and ...
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The current interpretation of the Eighth Amendment ignores the fact that it is a conjunction and doesn’t take the sentence to be a combination of the meaning of its components. As Justice Brennan said “the Court has never attempted to explicate the meaning of the clause by parsing its words.” But my contention is that to do justice to the Constitution, punishment is only illegal if it is ...
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It became part of the Bill of Rights in 1791 as the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor …
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This reality does not become controlling, for the task of interpreting the Eighth Amendment remains our responsibility. Yet at least from the time of the Court's decision in Trop, the Court has referred to the laws of other countries and to international authorities as instructive for its interpretation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments.” 356 U. S ...
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The eighth amendment of the United States Constitution affirms, “[e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” The interpretation of the eighth amendment, especially the words “cruel” and “unusual” have underpinned the legal outcomes leading to the declaration that juvenile death penalties are unconstitutional. In ...
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