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Capital Punishment as a whole is, yes; however, Capital Punishment for certain crimes could very well be seen to be both cruel and unusual. "The punishment should be proportional to the crime" and all that is functionally a fancy way of saying that a punishment should not be cruel or unusual...

Like I said, where should that cut off point be? The original idea, in the original law, was that it would prevent corruption by making it more obvious when influence was bought. The article goes into more detail, but that level was set at $200 in the 70s, which is now around $1000... but the...

So inspired by this article on National Review: I figured this would be an interesting policy discussion on if all political donations should be public knowledge, and if so, why and what limits, and if not, why and why not?