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Montalembert, who had inherited his father's title, was able to claim the right of trial by peers.
"I do not understand," Justice Scalia wrote, "why we would make such a strange exception to the treasured right of trial by jury".
"In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved".
The court ruled that under the Sixth Amendment's right of trial by jury, "any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt".
Instead, it went to bat against it, on behalf of the same dodgy piece of legislation that eroded the right of trial by jury and raised the maximum period of pre-charge detention from seven to 14 days.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
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Comparing airplane travel to voting rights is like comparing having cable TV to the right of a trial by jury.
He was a fervent advocate both of fully modern democracy universal suffrage, freedom of the press, right of meeting, trial by jury for political offenses, separation of church and state and of national unity.
As Justice Scalia elaborated on Thursday, the purpose of that rule was "to give intelligible content to the right of jury trial," which he said the Constitution's framers saw as a "circuit breaker in the state's machinery of justice".
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