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Recent content by John Galt
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Evolving Standards of Decency
I don't know about that; Idid however seeBadnarik's class. What this is all about is basically: "Was the Court right in creating an evolving standard of decency to apply to the 8th Amendment?" I believe they were incorrect, as explained above. If someone wants to explain why I am incorrect, I... -
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Evolving Standards of Decency
Three years later, Justice Kennedy would write for a bare majority that a new “national consensus” had emerged regarding the execution of “minors” and outlawed the practice as offensive to the “evolving standards of decency” “clause” in the Eighth Amendment. He explained in Roper v. Simmons... -
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Evolving Standards of Decency
In 1989, as noted previously, the Court held that both “minors” under the age of 18 and the mildly retarded that were all found competent to stand trial, were not being subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” in receiving the death penalty. Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Kennedy... -
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Evolving Standards of Decency
Hello all. This is my first post here, and itis a paper I have written. I am sorry about the length but if any of you choose to read it, I would welcome criticism. It is in three parts, all below. The Eighth Amendment & The Evolving Standards of Decency that Mark the Progress of a Maturing...