Cargando…
The jury in America : triumph and decline /
The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lawrence, KS :
University Press of Kansas,
2016.
|
| Colección: | American political thought
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting something old: one of the traditional and essential rights of all free men. Judgment by an "impartial jury" would henceforth put citizen panels at the very heart of the American legal order. And yet at the dawn of the 21st century, juries resolve just two percent of the nation's legal cases and criti. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780700622016 0700622012 |