" Each of these requirements is
illegal.
In Florida, they are required to be "householders."
In Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, and Georgia, jurors are required to
have the qualifications of "electors."
In Virginia, they are required to have a property qualification of
one hundred dollars.
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; thus disfranchising all except, the few thus
selected.
In Maine and Vermont, the inhabitants, by vote in town meeting,
have a veto upon the jurors selected by the authorities of the
town.
In Massachusetts, the inhabitants, by vote in town meeting, can
strike out any names inserted by the authorities, and insert
others; thus making jurors elective by the people, and, of course,
representatives only of a majority of the people.
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