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Richmond, VA: The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government. 48pp. staple bound booklet. Beige covers are toned. Contents creased at the top right corner. Nice working copy. Good Only. . Good. Soft cover. 3rd Edition. 1965.
Nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted... a few observations on the meaning of the Eighth Amendment by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government - 1965
by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government
Nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted... a few observations on the meaning of the Eighth Amendment
by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government
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Richmond: the Commission, 1965. 35p., very good in wraps. Conservative Southern perspective, challenging what the authors saw as "a mere squeamish sentimentality towards punishing criminals," turning the law into "a mere scarecrow for lawbreakers to laugh at." Discusses capital punishment, various forms of corporal punishment and imprisonment, etc. Argues that a return to the Founding Fathers would show that they "did not thus hamper our police in cleaning the cesspools of crimes which so often spill into our streets...
- Bookseller Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher the Commission
- Place of Publication Richmond
- Date Published 1965