Complex sentence: These exact words were first used in the English Bill of Rights 1689 and later were also adopted in the United States by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1791) and in the British Leeward Islands' Slavery Amelioration Act (1798).
Split into simpler sentences: These exact words were first used in the English Bill of Rights 1689. They were later also adopted in the United States by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1791) and in the British Leeward Islands' Slavery Amelioration Act (1798).