The Seventh Amendment
Subtitle: an illustrated history
By: Robert J. McWhirter
Contributors: McWhirter, Robert James, 1961-
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781945682070
Subjects: Constitutional history; United States; Civil rights
Other titles: 7th Amendment :
Description: "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).