<span>The boy's counsel could argue that the sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. This is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. The boy does not have the judgment of an adult and cannot be punished as an adult. In fact, even if the boy were an adult, life in prison could be a cruel or unusual sentence.</span>
Is this one of your choices? (( He nearly bankrupted the nation and was forcibly removed from office.))
The Prince is the pragmatic doctrine of Machiavelli on statecraft and it contains his philosophy.
Explanation:
The pragmatism of The Prince is rather construing and hard hitting.
It often argues for striated measures and openly asks the Prince to be a dictator in the Italian city states to make them more prosperous
Now. this was evident in his way of consolidation of power and its maintenance.
Power if gained by war or diplomacy was to shift the ruling power of the place conquered and to unsettle it enough to not make it possible to revolt.
Cultural assimilation was the key to consolidate power.