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  2. Coker v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The plurality decided that the death sentence was an unconstitutional punishment for rape because it was disproportionate to the crime. [7] Coker is the first Supreme Court decision to apply a proportionality requirement for sentencing under the cruel and unusual punishments clause. [8]

  3. Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Eighth Amendment was adopted, as part of the Bill of Rights, in 1791.It is almost identical to a provision in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, in which Parliament declared, "as their ancestors in like cases have usually done ... that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

  4. Robinson v. California - Wikipedia

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    Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), is the first landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime.

  5. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    An amendment to the Cable Act allows women to retain their citizenship if they marry an Asian person. [78] Michigan: A 1931 law criminalizes abortion in Michigan except when the mother's life is in danger. [79] 1936. A federal appeals court rules in United States v.

  6. Equal Rights Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...

  7. Corporal punishment is still a thing in Tennessee? Time to ...

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    Wright decision that constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment (8th Amendment) and for due process against loss of life, liberty or property (14th Amendment) apply only to ...

  8. Ingraham v. Wright - Wikipedia

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    Argument: Oral argument: Reargument: Reargument: Opinion announcement: Opinion announcement: Holding; The cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment did not apply to corporal punishment as a disciplinary practice in public schools, and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not require notice or a hearing prior to imposition of such punishment, as the state's ...

  9. When did women gain the right to vote? The history of the ...

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    19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...