members of Congress have introduced more than ten thousand proposals to amend the Constitution. Nonetheless, only twenty-seven amendments have ever been ratified, giving the United States one of ...

It has been 233 years since the ratification of the Bill of Rights. The aim is to give freedom and justice to all Americans, ...

At the time of the drafting of the Eighth Amendment ... and the provision in the amendment induced no debate on the floor of Congress. In United States v. Bajakajian (1998), the Supreme Court ...

The second category, which arguably reflects the understanding that prevailed in America before the drafting of the Eighth Amendment ... on the Constitution of the United States (1833) believed ...

Its goal is to prohibit the abuses of England's notorious Star Chamber—a court under King Henry VIII where political prisoners could be tried in secret. With the Sixth Amendment, the accused has ...