The sixth amendment to the u. s. constitution begins: “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed…” what does this mean in practice for a defendant in a federal criminal trial? jurors that represent different types of people in the community are more balanced when making a decision. unbiased jurors are more likely to come to a fair decision in the case. a jury must be a group of people who know the trial process and the law. the jury must decide a case quickly, so the defendant doesn’t have to wait long for the verdict.

Jane addams's memoir, twenty years at hull-house, describes her work with

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next

Based on the speakers words and emotions in the poems escape and to live the theme that there are many parts to a persons identity is expressed in neither poem in both poems only in escape only in to live