Jury Duty: What To Expect When You Get That Summons
Civics 101
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The History of the Jury System
The idea of legal cases being decided by a group of individuals has been around in different forms for millennia. For some historians, the Frankish inquest created by Louis the Pius is regarded as the beginning of the modern jury system. Magna Carta ensured that all subjects of the crown would be judged by a jury. The Sixth and Seventh Amendments of the US Constitution guarantees any defendant in a criminal or civil trial have a right to an impartial jury.
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