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Why were the jury boxes in the Queen's Building at the Royal Courts of Justice built too small? DuncanHill ( talk) 00:42, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
I asked the question because our article says "The next new building was the Queen's Building, opened in 1968, providing a further 12 courts. This building also contains cells in the basement. It was intended that these courts could be used for criminal matters; however, as the jury boxes can hold only 10 people they are not suitable for such use and are now primarily used for family proceedings." - So, I'm not asking for speculation or eve references about people being fat, I'm not asking for people to tell me that most civil cases don't have a jury, or that some civil cases do. I'm asking why, if the courts in the Queen's Building were intended for criminal cases, were the jury boxes built too small for a criminal jury? Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 17:53, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Duncan, I answered your question right at the top of the thread. We should remove the unsourced assertion from the article. There is evidence that jury boxes were traditionally built very small and there is evidence of juries sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice. I provided RS for each. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 18:56, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
I heard speculation on another site that France's invasion of Algiers in 1830 made it easier for French King Charles X to get overthrown later that same year due to the fact that this caused a lot of French troops to be in North Africa rather than in France where they could have propped up Charles X's rule.
Anyway, is there any truth to this speculation? Specifically, would French King Charles X have been more likely to remain in power in 1830 had he not sent off a lot of French troops and sailors to Algiers earlier that year?
Any thoughts on this? Futurist110 ( talk) 00:51, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Among other controversial decisions, Charles X had disbanded the National Guard (due to anti-monarchist sentiments within the Guard), but allowed its members to keep their weapons. Several of the former Guardsmen were involved in the July Revolution, and the Guard's weapons were used to arm the rebels. Dimadick ( talk) 14:37, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
The United States Constitution in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, talks of advice and consent. In practice, does the modern-day U.S. Senate have any "advice" role?
Like, if the President is tossing up between two or more candidates for a given position, does he ever send a request to the relevant Senate committee asking "which candidate would you be more supportive of"?
Or, in any other fashion, does the modern-day Senate EVER "advise" the President? Or has the "advice" bit fallen into disuse?
What about in earlier eras - did the Senate, in any fashion, ever tell the President "here's our advice for you"? Eliyohub ( talk) 06:22, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to know how many pages the original French edition of René Girard's Violence and the Sacred, published in 1972 as La violence et le sacré, has. More generally, it would be helpful if anyone could point out to me a way of finding information such as this. FreeKnowledgeCreator ( talk) 08:01, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
More generally, search on WorldCat, click "View all formats and languages" and find the edition you want. There may be multiple records because combining different libraries' catalogues is too fuzzy to fully automate. Some records give different page counts; the most trustworthy where available are those like "xliii, 343 pages" which give separate counts for a roman-numbered preface and the arabic-number main text. jnestorius( talk)
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Why were the jury boxes in the Queen's Building at the Royal Courts of Justice built too small? DuncanHill ( talk) 00:42, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
I asked the question because our article says "The next new building was the Queen's Building, opened in 1968, providing a further 12 courts. This building also contains cells in the basement. It was intended that these courts could be used for criminal matters; however, as the jury boxes can hold only 10 people they are not suitable for such use and are now primarily used for family proceedings." - So, I'm not asking for speculation or eve references about people being fat, I'm not asking for people to tell me that most civil cases don't have a jury, or that some civil cases do. I'm asking why, if the courts in the Queen's Building were intended for criminal cases, were the jury boxes built too small for a criminal jury? Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 17:53, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Duncan, I answered your question right at the top of the thread. We should remove the unsourced assertion from the article. There is evidence that jury boxes were traditionally built very small and there is evidence of juries sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice. I provided RS for each. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 18:56, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
I heard speculation on another site that France's invasion of Algiers in 1830 made it easier for French King Charles X to get overthrown later that same year due to the fact that this caused a lot of French troops to be in North Africa rather than in France where they could have propped up Charles X's rule.
Anyway, is there any truth to this speculation? Specifically, would French King Charles X have been more likely to remain in power in 1830 had he not sent off a lot of French troops and sailors to Algiers earlier that year?
Any thoughts on this? Futurist110 ( talk) 00:51, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Among other controversial decisions, Charles X had disbanded the National Guard (due to anti-monarchist sentiments within the Guard), but allowed its members to keep their weapons. Several of the former Guardsmen were involved in the July Revolution, and the Guard's weapons were used to arm the rebels. Dimadick ( talk) 14:37, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
The United States Constitution in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, talks of advice and consent. In practice, does the modern-day U.S. Senate have any "advice" role?
Like, if the President is tossing up between two or more candidates for a given position, does he ever send a request to the relevant Senate committee asking "which candidate would you be more supportive of"?
Or, in any other fashion, does the modern-day Senate EVER "advise" the President? Or has the "advice" bit fallen into disuse?
What about in earlier eras - did the Senate, in any fashion, ever tell the President "here's our advice for you"? Eliyohub ( talk) 06:22, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to know how many pages the original French edition of René Girard's Violence and the Sacred, published in 1972 as La violence et le sacré, has. More generally, it would be helpful if anyone could point out to me a way of finding information such as this. FreeKnowledgeCreator ( talk) 08:01, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
More generally, search on WorldCat, click "View all formats and languages" and find the edition you want. There may be multiple records because combining different libraries' catalogues is too fuzzy to fully automate. Some records give different page counts; the most trustworthy where available are those like "xliii, 343 pages" which give separate counts for a roman-numbered preface and the arabic-number main text. jnestorius( talk)