How has the American Bill of Rights influenced the rest of the world? An interactive web activity helps individuals see the similarities between countries' bills of rights. A text-to-text tool compares the American Bill of Rights to...

For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the Bill of Rights and respond to 3 talking point questions.

This particular page of annotations on the Eighth Amendment discusses the background and intended meaning of the phrase "cruel and unsual punishment".

This resource contains the text of the Eighth Amendment and legal annotations.

This is a very short article but is an argument against the chain gang as a method of punishment, an idea that is regaining popularity.