The Eighth Amendment | National Constitution Center | Khan Academy

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Keep going! Check out the next lesson and practice what you’re learning: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-government-and-civics/us-gov-civil-liberties-and-civil-rights/us-gov-balancing-individual-freedom-with-public-order-and-safety/a/lesson-summary-balancing-individual-freedom-with-public-order-and-safety A deep dive into the Eighth Amendment, which protects citizens from excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishment. In this video, Kim Kutz Elliott discusses the Eighth Amendment with scholars John Bessler and John Stinneford. To read more about the Eighth Amendment, visit the National Constitution Center’s Interactive Constitution. On this site, leading scholars interact and explore the Constitution and its history. For each provision of the Constitution, experts from different political perspectives coauthor interpretive explanations when they agree and write separately when their opinions diverge. View more lessons or practice this subject at https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-government-and-politics/civil-liberties-and-civil-rights/amendments-balancing-individual-freedom-with-public-order-and-safety/v/the-eighth-amendment?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=usgovernmentandcivics Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We offer quizzes, questions, instructional videos, and articles on a range of academic subjects, including math, biology, chemistry, phy

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