Foreword

PART 1: JURIES ASSERT THEIR POWER OVER ROYAL EXCESSES

1. The Father of Our Country

2. "It Is My Royal Will and Pleasure...!"

3. What It Takes to Be a Good Czar

PART 2: THE JURY RESPONDS TO PUBLIC HYSTERIA

4. Practitioners of the Detestable Arts

PART 3: JURORS RALLY IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH

5. "The Greater the Truth, the Greater the Libel": The Trial of John Peter Zenger, August 4, 1735, New York City

6. Alien and Sedition Acts Trials, 1798 to 1800

PART 4: JURIES AS EARLY ABOLITIONISTS AND DEFENDERS OF MINORITY RIGHTS

7. Laws Do Not Make People Free, People Make Laws Free; or, Who Needs a Proclamation of Emancipation Anyway?

8. A Man's Home, a Man's Castle: The Trials of Dr. Ossian Sweet and Family, October and November 1925, and April and May 1926, Detroit, Michigan

PART 5: JURIES SUPPORT WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

9. "I Have Decided She Was Not Protected in a Right to Vote!"

10. "She, Then and There, Was a Person of the Female Sex, Which She Well Knew!"

PART 6: IN SEARCH OF AN IMPARTIAL JURY

11. Murder in Haymarket Square, Chicago, 1886 and 1887

12. When Is a Jury Not a Jury? The Trials of the Sons of Victor Hugo, 1851, and Emile Zola, 1898, Paris, and a Commentary on His Service as a Juror by Andre Gide, 1913

Afterword: "They're Coming to Get You!"

Bibliography

Index