The Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of “cruel and unusual punishment,” but gives no example of permissible or impermissible punishment. The United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a Republic Form of Government. The Fourteenth Amendment proscribes states abridgments of the “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, but no privileges or immunities. The court doesn’t subscribe to the simplistic view that …show more content…
If a rule could be imposed to refer to the preamble, and not part of the Constitution. Even if the rule was imposed it has no apparent grounding in the Constitution itself. The remainder of the document is filled with lively languages about “liberty due to process of law. It’s not surprising that readers on both sides of the American political center have invoked the Constitution as authority for strikingly different conclusions about the legitimacy of existing institution and practices, and that neither wing has found it difficult to cite chapter and verse in support of its “reading” of our fundamental law. The materials tempt the reader to stick his or her vision of the just society into the meaning of the material being