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Prohibition enacted on january 19th, 1920 as a result of the 18th amendment. prohibition intended to raise our collective character as alcohol was seen as the root cause of many societal evils. an $11 billion worth of tax revenue and made criminals out of once law-abiding americans. as for weeding out the criminals, organized crime thrived. by the time prohibition was repealed, one out of every 40 americans had a criminal record. the government finally decided maybe regulating alcohol was the real ticket to a moral american. >> how did we get to this level of absurdity gep? from knicks on to...

Constitution written in the 18th century you try to find that those words meant in the 18s this century. >> the best example being the death penalty. i sat with three colleagues who thought it was unconstitutional but it is absolutely clear that the american people never voted to proscribe the death penalty. they adopted a cruel and unusual punishments clause at the time when every state had the death penalty and every state continued to have it. nobody thought that the 8th amendment prohibited it. >> chris: you criticize and some of your colleagues another approach using a word i have to admi...

Life in prison with no chance of parole, it says, that would be a violation of the 8th amendment to the u.s. constitution, so that ruling is in. also there is a ruling out of montana regarding corporate donations to political campaigns. that decision has come down as well. and just checking the wires on that issue, the supreme court has ruled moments ago with regard to montana, it strikes down the limits on corporate campaign spending in that case. so you have two decisions pannedded down as of 10:08 eastern time but still immigration in arizona, and healthcare overhaul have yet to be decided....

Without parole for children as young as 14. i want to turn to jurisprudence more. it's cruel and unusual punishment. those are two very different notions. cruelty on the one and something being unusual. how has the court come to understand that? >> i think you're right. it's a challenging concept that the court has also read into the 8th amendment, this notion that there are evolving standards of decency. so what makes punishment unusual isn't that it's new. it could have been around for a long time. so what they tend to do is to look a lot at the incident of the punishment. if there's a lot o...

Day and it's almost nine years later. when you have sociopathic tendencies and you're not remorseful for your crime, then he doesn't deserve to be out. >> i think that gets to the deep core way. more about the 8th amendment, what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment right after we take this break. [ male announcer ] this is genco services -- mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, ...