Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
| 1. | Case of Titus Oates |
| 2. | Bill of Rights, sec. 10, 2, 16 Dec. 1689 |
| 3. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 6, CHS. 12, 16, 1748 |
| 4. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 4:293--97, 369--74, 1769 |
| 5. | Virginia Declaration of Rights, sec. 9, 12 June 1776 |
| 6. | Connecticut Constitutional Ordinance, 1776 |
| 7. | Delaware Declaration of Rights and Fundamental Rules, 11 Sept. 1776 |
| 8. | Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, SECS. 29, 38, 39 |
| 9. | Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 26 Aug. 1776 |
| 10. | Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments, 1778 |
| 11. | James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution, 1788 |
| 12. | Abraham Holmes, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 30 Jan. 1788 |
| 13. | Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 16 June 1788 |
| 14. | House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, 17 Aug. 1789 |
| 15. | James Wilson, A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury, May 1791 |
| 16. | Benjamin Rush, On Punishing Murder by Death, 1792 |
| 17. | State v. Howell |
| 18. | Barker v. People |
| 19. | James v. Commonwealth |
| 20. | Commonwealth v. Wyatt |
| 21. | William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States 130--32 1829 (2d ed.) |
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