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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hale, Dennis (Dennis B.) (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Colección:American political thought
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the pardoxical jury
  • The common-law jury in England and the colonies
  • The republican jury
  • The modern jury
  • The postmodern jury
  • The vanishing jury
  • Conclusion.