Constitutional Questions: The 7th and 8th Amendments

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Am I guaranteed a jury trial if I get sued for, say, $25?
- Yes
- No
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Who decides whether bail is “excessive” according to the 8th Amendment?
- The Courts.
- Congress.
- State Legislatures.
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Has the Supreme Court banned the death penalty as “cruel and unusual?”
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- No
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The 7th Amendment provides that all civil trials shall be by jury:
- When requested by the plaintiff in a writ of mandamus.
- In cases where there is a danger that judges may award excessive damages to a plaintiff.
- When the value in controversy is deemed by Congress to merit special consideration.
- When the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars.
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The 7th Amendment was meant to quiet fears expressed by Antifederalists that:
- So long as civil cases could be tried without juries, then the ease of bringing a suit to trial would lead to a spate of frivolous lawsuits that would clog the courts.
- The Constitution's silence on the question of jury trials in civil cases, combined with the Supreme Court's appellate power to review cases "both as to law and fact," would lead to the abolition of jury trials in civil cases.
- Unless the courts were bound by "the rules of the common law," the balance of powers would be upset through judicial activism.
- Jury selection would otherwise take place on the national rather than the local level.
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The meaning of the 8th Amendment’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishments”:
- Was established in England's 1689 Bill of Rights, and it has not changed substantially over the course of three centuries.
- Was interpreted more expansively at the time of the American Founding from its British forebears, but it has remained static since that time.
- Was interpreted more expansively at the time of the American Founding from its British forebears, and more recent interpretations have relied on the "evolving standards of decency" established by the Warren Court in Trop v. Dulles in 1954.
- Was enshrined in law for the first time in the American Bill of Rights, and so it should come as no surprise that it has never been conclusively defined.
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Constitutional Questions: The 7th and 8th Amendments

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