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Ewing v. California

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The Importance of Proper Punishment

The Supreme Court's solicitor general says the idea that punishment must fit the crime is not part of our Constitution. The opinion stems back to a dissent he wrote in a case called Harmal envy Michigan, which we will eventually cover one day. His main argument was basically like, well, if they wanted it to include proportionality, they could have used the term or like something similar,. So we should assume that they were purposefully excluding it.

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