Should eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth be in the constitution?

Appealing to the animal in us..we must overcome the primitive brain!

Wouldn't be much point. By the time the lawyers and judges got done haggling over was it really that person’s eye? and was ownership of the tooth legally established? - the DA would have already settled a plea deal to yank out one of the perpetrator’s eyelashes.

No, definitely NOT. We have enough unplanned bloodshed without mutilation added to the mix,

"An eye for an eye makes the world go blind"

Obviously not if you are a Christian. I thought the USA had a secular Constitution so why would it include a quotation from the Scriptures of two religions?

No i wouldn't say so, that would be devolving into older more primal ways. Nor is the current way of things good either.

nah, that's just so old testament. Plus it just may pass. Then we'll have the Taliban and and their dogs running us ragged.

No. The Constitution is about limits on government. I dont see a place for mandatory sentences.

Sure. In Saudi Arabia.