Connecticut
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A U.S. state whose statutory juror qualifications or selection method are surveyed as part of the author's state-by-state argument that American juries are generally illegal.
In Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, and Georgia, jurors are required to have the qualifications of “electors.
In Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, certain civil authorities of the towns, cities, and counties are authorized to select, once in one, two, or three years, a certain number of the people—a small number compared with the whole—from whom jurors are to be taken when wanted;
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
State whose 1818 constitution is cited as a further example of 'freeman' usage.
” The constitution of Connecticut, adopted as late as 1818, has this provision:
All persons who have been, or shall hereafter, previous to the ratification of this constitution, be admitted freemen, according to the existing laws of this State, shall be electors.
The Genius of the Common Law
Colony associated with the spurious 'Blue Laws', which Pollock explicitly disclaims relying upon.
Such was the prevailing temper, down to the eighteenth century, throughout the New England States, and the zeal of Massachusetts was equalled or even exceeded elsewhere (I do not, of course, refer to the spurious ‘Blue Laws’ of Connecticut;
The Law of Torts
American state whose Supreme Court issued a decision like that in the Nitro-glycerine Case.
There have been like decisions in the Supreme Courts of New York and Connecticut.