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Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all c
Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all c
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Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the law. The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy. In a direct democracy, citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them.
But as recently as in 1986, jury selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character. Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880 case of Strauder v. West Virginia, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other antidiscrimination laws.
The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century. Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898, it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty. Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list. This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.
In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury. This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level. The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors.
After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed,______.
选项
A、sex discrimination injury selection was unconstitutional and had to be abolished
B、educational requirements became less rigid in the selection of federal jurors
C、jurors at the state level ought to be representative of the entire community
D、states ought to conform to the federal court in reforming the jury system
答案
B
解析
本题信息点是After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed,该信息点出现在文章最后一段第一句话:In 1968,the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and ServiceAct,ushering in a new era ofdemocratic reforms forthejury.“1968年,美国议会通过了《陪审员遴选和服务条例》,开创了陪审员制度民主改革的新时代”,根据语篇衔接与连贯原则可以推断下一句的内容会涉及改革。再看下一句:This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community.,由此可以看出条例通过后的第一个结果是废除联邦对陪审员特殊的教育程度要求,第二个结果是联邦陪审员要在全社会随机挑选。B项符合第一个结果,为本题答案。
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考研英语二
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