Answer: By the eighth amendment to the Constitution
Explanation: The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution are called the Bill of Rights, often referred to as the fundamental freedoms, they protect basic rights throughout the criminal justice process.
The Eighth Amendment prohibits inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. As a result of this protection, a person cannot be sentenced too harshly and once in jail, he or she cannot be beaten or deprived of medical attention.
The Eighth Amendment (1791) states that; Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. This Amendment requires judges to
set reasonable and consistent bail as well as suit the sentence to the crime.
<span>I believe that the
correct answer is (b). As the tribe divided over voluntary removal, Elias
Boudinot and John Ridge became the two Cherokee leaders of opposite viewpoints.
Boudinot considered that the removal was inevitable and signed the Treaty of New
Echota in 1835 with other treaty supporters. On the other hand, the chief of
Cherokee nation, John Ridge, tried to stop white political leaders from forcing
them to move; he was backed by the majority. Their resistance resulted in the "Trail
of Tears" (Nu na da ul tsun yi (the place where they cried)) in which
one-fourth of the Cherokee forced to move died.</span>
The French army helped America corner the British by making a blockade and preventing any escape by water whilst the Americans attacked and sealed off any escape by land.
