{"id":14591,"date":"2020-09-19T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:02:32","slug":"federalist-83-trial-by-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/federalist-83-trial-by-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalist 83: The Need for a Trial by Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What was the Constitutional significance of a trial by jury? How does Federalist 83 address this issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federalist 83 is about the criticism that the Constitution didn&#8217;t guarantee a trial by jury. In particular, it was a missing protection for criminal cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the issue of a trial by jury and Federalist 83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Criticism Covered by Federalist 83: Lack of a Trial by Jury<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Constitution guaranteed a trial by jury to all defendants who requested one\u2014but only in criminal cases <\/strong>(involving offenses against the state)<strong>. <\/strong>There was no such provision for civil cases (involving private disputes between individuals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This led critics and opponents of the Constitution to fear that the document explicitly <em>prohibited <\/em>trial by jury in civil cases. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/publius-the-federalist-papers\/\">Publius<\/a> argued in Federalist 83 that this was faulty reasoning. Just because a right was not expressly <em>guaranteed <\/em>did not mean that it was <em>denied<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, it was not clear that trial by jury in civil matters was, in fact, desirable. Would <em>every <\/em>petty civil dispute require a jury to be empaneled, at great cost to the public? Moreover, many civil cases involved highly specialized areas of law, such as probate or admiralty law. In such cases, it was questionable whether juries would have the necessary expertise or judgment to render sound verdicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in <em>criminal <\/em>appellate courts, many jurisdictions did not use trial by jury. Instead, they relied upon a single judge or panel of judges. Universal trial by jury in civil cases was not a realistic standard, nor was it one that had precedent, either in the states or Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the states already used special tribunals, not juries, to adjudicate civil cases. Therefore, it made little sense to hold the federal judicial system to a standard that wasn\u2019t being held by the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the Constitutional significance of a trial by jury? How does Federalist 83 address this issue? Federalist 83 is about the criticism that the Constitution didn&#8217;t guarantee a trial by jury. In particular, it was a missing protection for criminal cases. 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