Word: convergingã
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...looks abroad to confirm its prejudices, not to challenge them.” Jackson defended the Court’s ruling in Roper, saying that the Court has always incorporated foreign law and that it should “engage” foreign precedents instead of “converging?? toward them. “The history of the eighth amendment is marked by courts looking to the outside,” Jackson said. She also said that in deciding the scope of the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment, the Court has often looked...
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