Rights of the Accused and Judicial Independence

. Right to Jury Trial Also mentioned in Article III is a criminal defendant’s

right to a jury trial. Many more rights of the accused were included later in

the Bill of Rights, but the framers saw the right to a jury trial as

a citizen check on government accusation and was thus included in the article.

FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS: FEDERALIST NO. 78 Anti-Federalists were concerned about

establishing an independent judiciary. In England, Parliament could vote to remove judges

from office, and it could pass laws overriding judicial decisions. Brutus,

the mouthpiece for the Anti- Federalists, expressed concern that there was no