The Constitution of the United States, Article. III. Section. 2. Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials

The United States Constitution

Article. III. (The Judicial Branch)
Section. 2. (Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials)

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;–to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;–to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;–to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;–to Controversies between two or more States;– between a State and Citizens of another State,–between Citizens of different States,–between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
 
 

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• The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription – The National Archives
• CRS Annotated Constitution
• United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions – Law Library of Congress
• The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation – FDsys
• Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Govinfo.gov
• “The Right to a Jury Trial in Civil Cases Part 2: Identifying Civil Cases with a Right to a Jury Trial,” CRS Legal Sidebar LSB10884 (5-page PDF)
• “The Right to a Jury Trial in Civil Cases Part 1: Introduction and Historical Background,” CRS Legal Sidebar LSB10883 (11-page PDF)
• “Federal Grand Juries: The Law in a Nutshell,” CRS Report RS20214 (10-page PDF)
• “Congressional Authority Over the Federal Courts,” CRS Report RL32926 (39-page PDF)
• Impeach / Impeachment (CongressionalGlossary.com)
• Section 2: Federal jurisdiction and trial by jury – Wikipedia
• Section 2. Judicial Power and Jurisdiction – Findlaw
• Together with the right to vote, those who wrote our Constitution considered the right to trial by jury “the heart and lungs, the mainspring and the center wheel” of our liberties, without which “the body must die; the watch must run down; the government must become arbitrary.” Letter from Clarendon to W. Pym (Jan. 27, 1766), in 1 Papers of John Adams 169 (R. Taylor ed. 1977). Just as the right to vote sought to preserve the people’s authority over their government’s executive and legislative functions, the right to a jury trial sought to preserve the people’s authority over its judicial functions. J. Adams, Diary Entry (Feb. 12, 1771), in 2 Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 3 (L. Butterfield ed. 1961); see also 2 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution §1779, pp. 540–541 (4th ed. 1873).
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