The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries

ISBN-13: 9781316618035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 262 str.

Suja A. Thomas

Opis

This book explores why juries have declined in power and how the federal government and the states have taken the jury's authority.

Recenzje

'Suja A. Thomas … contends the jury should be viewed as a fourth branch of government equal to that of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches. … The Missing American Jury leaves you certain that the jury must be restored to its original role as a powerful, necessary, and meaningful part of our government.' Eric W. Young, Law Library Journal

Spis treści

1. The missing American jury: an introduction; Part I. The Jury Now: 2. The fall of the criminal, civil, and grand juries and the rise of the executive, the legislature, the judiciary, and the states; 3. The missing branch; Part II. The Future Jury: 4. Interpreting jury authority; 5. Restoring the jury; 6. Beyond the constitution: affirming a role for lay jurors in America's government and world-wide; 7. A branch among equals in American democracy: a conclusion.