{"id":4703,"date":"2021-05-25T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:42:50","slug":"lerner-on-the-surprising-views-of-montesquieu-and-tocqueville-about-juries-juries-empower-judges-gwlaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/25\/lerner-on-the-surprising-views-of-montesquieu-and-tocqueville-about-juries-juries-empower-judges-gwlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Lerner on The Surprising Views of Montesquieu and Tocqueville about Juries: Juries Empower Judges @gwlaw @lalawreview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renee Lettow Lerner, George Washington Law School, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3832291&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal:history:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Surprising Views of Montesquieu and Tocqueville about Juries: Juries Empower Judges<\/a> at 81 Louisiana Law Review 1 (2020). Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both Montesquieu and Tocqueville thought that an independent judiciary was key to maintaining a moderate government of ordered liberty. But judicial power should not be exercised too openly, or the people would view judges as tyrannical. In Montesquieu\u2019s and Tocqueville\u2019s view, the jury was an excellent mask for the power of judges. Both Montesquieu and Tocqueville thought that popular juries had many weaknesses in deciding cases. But, as Tocqueville made clear, the firm guidance of the judge in instructions on law and comments on evidence could prevent juries from going astray and make the institution a \u201cfree school\u201d for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The article explores Montesquieu\u2019s legacy concerning judges and juries in the arguments of both the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. It also examines the American antecedents of Tocqueville\u2019s idea of the jury as a school for democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n<p>For more bibliographical references on Tocqueville, see <a href=\"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/alexis-de-tocqueville-a-comprehensive-bibliography\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renee Lettow Lerner, George Washington Law School, has published The Surprising Views of Montesquieu and Tocqueville about Juries: Juries Empower Judges at 81 Louisiana Law Review 1 (2020). Here is the abstract. Both Montesquieu&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[688,689],"tags":[690,132,691],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montesquieu","category-tocqueville","tag-montesquieu","tag-news","tag-tocqueville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}