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Title: Morality in Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence. (Symposium: Law and Morality)
Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 286 KB

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INTRODUCTION Morality in Eighth Amendment jurisprudence is but one aspect of a more general topic: the use of moral reasoning by judges in American constitutional interpretation. Seeing the role of moral reasoning through the prism of the Eighth Amendment may help shed light on the more general topic because of three facts: a clear historical record about the Amendment, its frequent invocation in theoretical debates about morality and jurisprudence, and the way it has forced the Supreme Court to address morality directly in its opinions.