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Yes, all three have one thing in common. Let's start with the latter two. At first glance, the average American might wonder - one's a criminal case over the murder of a child, the other a civil suit over spilled coffee; in the former, the defendant, Casey Anthony, was found not guilty by the jury of the most heinous of the six charges… Continue

Numerous signers of the Declaration of Independence fervently believed that a jury trial for civil suits was a God-given, unalienable right.  That belief was reflected in the Declaration itself, when Thomas Jefferson included in the charges against King George the following phrase: "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury."  Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, and Elbridge Gerry were among our Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration and believed in the right…

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Today is the 260th anniversary of the birth of James Madison, fourth President of the United States, principal author of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the latter of which merits him the title of "Father of the 7th Amendment." Today at Montpelier, his birthplace in Virginia and lifetime home, they're celebrating by unveiling an historical marker in honor of First…

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