What do juries do?

Jury is a group of people who swear to the judge and make a decision on a given case, especially a group of people who are summoned by law to the court to hear the case and make a final decision. Jury is a group used to judge facts in court, which is more common in common law countries.

Being a jury is generally limited by nationality, age, place of residence, communication skills, felony record and professional nature. For example, people who are under 18 at the time of trial, do not live in the local area, have poor English, have hearing defects or have criminal records, etc., are not eligible to be jurors. In addition, lawyers, judges, doctors, dentists, firefighters, teachers and government officials cannot serve as jurors.

Extended data

The political function of jury system to guarantee civil liberties. On the one hand, the jury system shares judicial power through the people, restricts power with power, and guarantees civil liberties. The fundamental feature of modern democratic politics is that all power belongs to the people.

However, due to the vast territory, large population and political and economic separation of modern countries, modern democracy is indirect democracy or representative democracy, that is, people do not exercise power directly and often, but elect their own representatives to directly manage state and social affairs. This means that there is some separation between the subject of political power and the subject exercising political power.

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