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Et voilà! Je me lance. Désormais, je partagerai mes pensées quotidiennes (du moins, je l'espère) dans ce petit blog. _#

J'ai choisi cette date pour deux raisons. Deux raisons qui me touchent particulièrement. La première, elle n'aura échappé à personne: Tout porte à croire, en ce jour d'élections étatsuniennes, que la situation geopolitique mondiale est entrain de basculer; et si je me fie aux prévisions, du bon coté de la balance. La deuxième, et elle n'est pas la moindre, du moins pour moi, ce jour a été choisi par la communauté "blogueuse" Tunisienne (la Tunisphère) comme journée nationale pour la liberté du blog. _#

Ces deux évènements correspondent parfaitement aux sujets que j'aimerais aborder dans ce blog, politique et internet. J'essaierai donc ici, de partager quelques unes de mes pensées qui, je l'espère, vous donneront envie de me faire part des votres. _#
Alors voilà, Je vous souhaite une bonne lecture, et longue vie à ce Blog. _#

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I. THE ORDEAL AND THE JURY TRIAL: THEORETICAL PRELUDE

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(18) but if the water repelled him and he floated, he was condemned. In the ordeal of hot iron, the accused walked barehanded with a hot iron bar. Three days later, when her bandages were removed, her healing hands revealed her fate: if the wounds were healing cleanly, she was absolved; if corruptly, condemned.

Three days later, when her bandages were removed, her healing hands revealed her fate: if the wounds were healing cleanly, she was absolved; if corruptly, condemned... But in 1215 the Church forbade priests to officiate at ordeals and suddenly stripped these rituals of their divine imprimatur.

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I. THE ORDEAL AND THE JURY TRIAL: THEORETICAL PRELUDE

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(17) Before 1215, criminal trials had proceeded by ordeal or by battle. In the ordeal of cold water, the accused was tossed in a pool with a rope tied around his hips. If he sank, he was hauled out an innocent person, for the purity of the water had accepted him;

Although the jury's origins lie hidden in Dark Ages rituals, we can trace the origins of the sort of jury that concerns us here--the criminal trial jury--with something like pinpoint accuracy: The first true criminal jury trial seems to have taken place at Westminster in 1220.(16) Juries had long acted to resolve various civil disputes, especially claims about land, and they had for decades served as accusing bodies in criminal cases in the manner of modem grand juries. But not before 1220 did a jury sit in judgment of a criminal accused with the discretion either to acquit or to condemn.

The occasion of this sudden birth of trial by jury was the sudden death of trial by ordeal.(17) Before 1215, criminal trials had proceeded by ordeal or by battle. In the ordeal of cold water, the accused was tossed in a pool with a rope tied around his hips. If he sank, he was hauled out an innocent person, for the purity of the water had accepted him...

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