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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Unit 5, Round 1 - WTP Finals

Samuel Oppong and Brian Webb:

Unit 5:  What Rights Does the Bill of Rights Protect?


“The jury, which is the most energetic means of making the people rule, is also the most efficacious [effective] means of teaching it how to rule well.”* In what ways, if any, does the jury allow the people to check the power of government?
  • In what ways, if any, does serving on juries teach people “how to rule well”?
  • What is the relationship, if any, between the Sixth Amendment’s requirement of “the right to a speedy and public trial” and limited government?
* Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in Democracy in America, Phillips Bradley, ed. (New York: Vintage, 1965), 293–94.