Answer:
Not allowing excessive bail or punishment.
Step-by-step explanation:
It prohibits the Federal, State, and local governments of the United States, or any other corporation, private enterprise, other countries or individual to impose excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments in any part of U.S. soil or against any U.S. citizen.
It was adopted in 1791 along with the rest of the United States Bill of Rights.
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