Formation of the American Jury

Formation of the American Jury
	THE AMERICAN JURY BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY	About the Project Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago Chicago Historical Society National Endowment for the Humanities
AN ONLINE RESOURCE GUIDE
Lessons and Activities Jury Trials for the Classroom Resources from the Chicago Historical Society Web Resources Print Resources Site Index HISTORY AND PURPOSE Origins of the American Jury Formation of the American Jury STRUCTURE Introduction to Trial by Jury Grand Jury Right of the Accused to Trial by Jury Jury Selection: Voir Dire Jury of One's Peers Jury Deliberation ISSUES Evidence Jury Nullification Jury Trials and the Media Jury Damage Awards Comparative Jury Systems FUTURE Jury in American Society Jury Reform Future of the American Jury	The jury trial was a significant expression of "the consent of the governed" in American history. Among the reasons given by the signers of the Declaration of Independence to "dissolve the Political Bonds" which connected them to Great Britain was the deprivation "of the Benefits of Trial by Jury." Trial by jury in criminal cases was incorporated into the Constitution itself, and the grand jury, the criminal petit jury, and the civil petit jury all were enumerated in the Bill of Rights. This section of "The American Jury" provides resources and classroom strategies for exploring how the jury system worked and was understood in Pre-Revolutionary America and in the early history of the United States. It also includes an activity and resources that focus on how significant early Americans considered both civil and criminal trial procedures.	LIST OF LESSONS What are the Purposes of the American Jury (rating activity/selection activity) American Jury Timeline: Colonial Period to 1850 LINKS TO RELEVANT SITES Declaration of Independence, Section 19 Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Federalist 83 Joseph Story, "Trial by Jury," Commentaries on the Constitution [Sections 1772-1788]
	PRINT RESOURCES Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay, and James Madison. The Federalist Papers, Number 83. Greenberg, Douglas. Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York 1691-1776 (1976), pp. 171-174. Finkelman, Paul, Kermit Hall, and William Wiecek, (Eds.). "Law in the Morning of America: The Beginnings of American Law, to 1760," American Legal History: Cases and Materials (1991), pp. 3-23. Kaminski, John S., and Richard Leffler, Eds. Federalists and Anti-Federalists (1989), pp. 120-1, 132-135, 150-157, 159-164, 168-170. Katz, Stanley Nider, (Ed.). "Introduction," pp. 1-33, in James Alexander, TA Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger Printer of the New York Weekly Journal (1972). Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution, [1833] (1987), Book III, Chapter 38, 壯 918-919, 922-938, pp. 653-668.
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