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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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2019-06-11
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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 injury 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 injury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors.
In discussing the US jury system, the text centers on
选项
A、its nature and problems.
B、its characteristics and tradition.
C、its problems and their solutions.
D、its tradition and development.
答案
D
解析
主旨题。题干要求考生判断本篇文章的主要内容,即文章主要讨论美国陪审团制度的:A 项“本质和问题;B项“特点和传统”;C项“问题和解决方法”;D项“传统和发展”。正确选项的 关键在于理解文章四个段落的主要内容和相互关系。文章的第一段概括介绍了美国陪审团制 度的五个原则,其中涉及了文化程度要求、性别等方面,第二、三、四段分别介绍了美国陪审制 度的发展,包括了陪审员的挑选、女性陪审员的地位变化以及关于教育和性别要求的变化,因 此可以明显看出,文章主要是介绍美国陪审制度的历史和发展,所以D项为正确答案。
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