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The Seventh Amendment : an illustrated history Robert J. McWhirter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF 4750 .M39 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWhirter, Robert James, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution--7th Amendment.
- United States.
- Constitution (United States).
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- 46 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Distribution:
- Carlisle, Massachusetts : Applewood Books
- Other Title:
- Bills, quills, and stills : [chapter seven]
- Place of Publication:
- Tempe, AZ : Constitution Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Trial by oath, trial by ordeal, trial by combat. However did we get from those forms of trial to trial by jury? We take trial by jury as a given, but why is it enshrined in the Bill of Rights? Robert McWhirter traces the long history of trials in their various forms from Medieval England, through the Tudor dynasty and the problems of Henry VIII, the Stuart Kings and the Georgians to arrive at how trials were conducted in Colonial America with the tussle for primacy between the judiciary and juries. It was as a result of that last struggle that the drafters of the Bill of Rights realized the need for the Seventh Amendment."--Page [4] of cover.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in the United States as a chapter of Bills, quills, and stills: an annotated, illustrated, and illuminated history of the Bill of Rights"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-46).
- ISBN:
- 9781945682070
- 1945682078
- OCLC:
- 1017566636
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