Teaching Civics Your Bill of Rights – The Eighth Amendment: What Would the Framers Call Cruel Punishment?

Your Bill of Rights – The Eighth Amendment: What Would the Framers Call Cruel Punishment?

Posted By llad On July 27, 2014 @ 6:16 pm In | Comments Disabled

From TIME

“The 8th amendment of the U.S. constitution protects against excessive bail and cruel or unusual punishments. What was considered cruel or unusual in 1789?” This video ^[1] (02:50) is from the Your Bill of Rights series.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2080345_2080344_2080382,00.html ^[1]

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