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The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture.
First, the Court articulated the reasons for a federal right to bail: [f]rom the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789, to the present Federal Rules of Criminal Proce-dure, Rule 46 (a)(1), federal law has unequivo-cally provided that a person arrested for a non-capital offense shall be admitted to bail.