| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. SEcT. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive...imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. SEcT. 14. All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offence. No wise Legislature will... | |
| Illinois - Constitutional law - 1818 - 32 pages
...be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. Sect. 14. All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offence, the true design of all punishments being to reform, not to exterminate, mankind. Sect. 15. No person... | |
| Ohio - Session laws - 1821 - 636 pages
...be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. Sec. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required: excessive...imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Sec. 14. All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offence. No wise Legislature will... | |
| William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...the trial in the nearest county in which an impartial trial can be obtained. " All penalties ought to be proportioned to the nature of the offence. No wise legislature will affix the same punishment to the crimes of theft, forgery, and the like, which they do to those of murder and treason.... | |
| Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...fines shall not iie nnposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments in-. dieted. 14. All penalties shall he .proportioned to the nature of the offence. No wise legislature will affix the same punishment to the crimes of theft, forgery, and the like, which they do to those of murder and treason.... | |
| John Cain - Forms (Law) - 1832 - 360 pages
...not ba suspended, unless in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. SEC. 15. Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines...imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. SEC. 16. All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offence. SEC. 17. The person of a... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutions - 1836 - 146 pages
...of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be passed. 18. Excessive bail shall not be required; excessive fines shall not be imposed ; and cruel and unjust punishments shall not be inflicted. 19. The property of no person shall be taken... | |
| Caleb Atwater - Natural history - 1838 - 420 pages
...be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. SEC. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required; excessive...fines shall not be imposed ; nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. SBC. 14. All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offence. No... | |
| New Jersey - Session laws - 1842 - 1396 pages
...unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 15. Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines shall not be imposed, and cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted. 1(5. Private property shall not be taken... | |
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