Showing posts with label jury duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jury duty. Show all posts
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Tocqueville on Juries

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From  Democracy in America [eds. J. P. Mayer and Max Lerner, trans., George Lawrence, Harper & Row, 1966, pp. 249-53] To regard the jur...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

What Makes a Good Citizen?

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John Gramlich at Pew: In a Pew Research Center survey in early 2018, around three-quarters of Americans (74%) said voting in elections was...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Jury Duty and Good Citizenship

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John Gramlich writes at Pew: In an April Pew Research Center survey , two-thirds of U.S. adults (67%) said s erving on a jury “is part of ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Justices on Jury Duty

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A number of posts have discussed jury duty .  Even high official s are not exempt.   The Washington Post reports : One potential juror w...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Jury Right

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At The Weekly Standard , David M. Wagner writes: [Eighty-one] years before the right to vote made its first appearance in the Constitutio...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Noncitizens and Juries: A Bill Veto

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Patrick McGreevy reports at The Los Angeles Times   that Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) has vetoed a bill allowing legal aliens to serve on ju...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Civic Duties

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At The Atlantic , Andrew Guthrie Ferguson writes: Every spring, commencement speeches echo across college campuses, calling upon students ...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Jury Duty, Deliberation, and Citizenship

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At The Atlantic , Andrew Guthrie Ferguson writes about the value of jury duty : A jury summons is an invitation to participation. Jurors ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Jury Duty

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Previous posts  (including a first-hand account of my own experience ) have discussed jury duty .  Andrew Guthrie Ferguson has a new book o...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Serving on a Jury

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In Democracy in America , Tocqueville wrote : Juries are wonderfully effective in shaping a nation’s judgment and increasing its natural li...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Simple Story of Civic Duty

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The main point of our book is that there is more to public life than self-interest. Many people shirk civic duty, of course, but many other...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Jury Duty

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Serving on juries is an important duty of citizenship. But in Los Angeles County, it is increasingly difficult to find jurors. T he Los A...