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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Eighth Amendment"”.
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Exploring Irish Women's Experiences of Social Climate Around Abortion After the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment
… in the context of the campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, which previously prohibited abortion in Ireland. Abortion was previously an extremely taboo and stigmatized issue in Ireland, but in the year leading up to the national referendum, there was a highly visible campaign for, and …
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A Jurisdictional Analysis of Franklin Proceedings: A Preliminary Study
… juveniles to life in prison violates the Eighth Amendment in all but the most extreme cases. California responded to this line of cases with the passage of Senate Bill 260 and Penal Code § 4801(c). Senate Bill 260 and Penal Code § 4801(c) mandate that the youthful offender parole board …
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An Analysis of Pregnant Inmate Shackling Laws and Policies
… cruel and unusual punishment, thus violating the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This study includes a content analysis of shackling laws and policies and a content analysis of the lawsuits involving the shackling of pregnant inmates from 2009 through 2014. There are …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment?, and 2) Does the stark racial disparity among America’s incarcerated youth reflect intrinsic structural features of the juvenile justice system that are inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? …
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… systems. This dissertation examines how the amendment power can be used to legitimately produce a constitutional revolution, altering the core identity of a constitutional system. First, I argue that revolutionary amendments can be classified along two dimensions: institutional and …