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Program 70: The Jury: Safeguard or Anachronism?

Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, reports to members of the Center on the results of a study of the jury system, and discusses the validity of the Jacksonian faith in the native intelligence of the average man. July 1963. [CSDI program number 70 ; UCSB tape numbers A7593/R7, A7594/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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