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The Value of a Jury System
Title: The Value of a Jury System
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1649 | Pages: 7.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Value of a Jury System
The Value of a Jury System
The Founders of our nation understood that no idea was more central to our Bill of Rights -- indeed, to government of the people, by the people, and for the people -- than the citizen jury. It was cherished not only as a bulwark against tyranny but also as an essential means of educating Americans in the habits and duties of citizenship. By enacting the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments to …showed first 75 words of 1649 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1649 total…courts to unleash the common sense of the ordinary citizen.
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