TY - JOUR AU - Burns, Robert Patrick PY - 2015/01/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Popular Sovereignty and the Jury Trial JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - The Jury as a Political Institution DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/556 SP - 334-343 AB - <p>Descriptive and normative discussions of whether the jury trial is or should be a political institution are complicated by the systematic ambiguity of the most important terms in this discussion. One influential perspective understands a political actor as "he would decide on the exception." This seems to fit the jury insofar as it may nullify the written law in its decisions. It turns out, however, that the jury's actual practices demonstrate that the usual notion of sovereignty is far too narrow.</p> <hr /><p>Las discusiones descriptivas y normativas de si el juicio por jurado es o debe ser una instituci&oacute;n pol&iacute;tica son complicadas por la ambig&uuml;edad sistem&aacute;tica de los t&eacute;rminos m&aacute;s importantes de esta discusi&oacute;n. Una perspectiva influyente entiende que un actor pol&iacute;tico tomar&iacute;a una decisi&oacute;n sobre la excepci&oacute;n&rdquo;. Esto parece encajar en el jurado en la medida en que puede anular en sus decisiones la ley escrita. Resulta, sin embargo, que las pr&aacute;cticas reales del jurado demuestran que la noci&oacute;n habitual de soberan&iacute;a es demasiado estrecha.</p> <p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2765477" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2765477</a></p> ER -