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How do citizens take part in court cases?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Citizens and citizens' groups take part in court cases in many ways:

  • First, through the U.S. jury system, citizens are chosen to engage in fact-finding and to help decide the outcome of the case.
  • Second, citizens and citizens' groups can submit "amicuscuriae briefs" to the court. "Amicus curiae" literally means "friend of the court" in Latin -- these are briefs submitted by non-parties who are interested, somehow, in the issues of the case. They provide arguments and issues for the court to consider.
  • Citizens also take part in court cases by providing testimony, acting as good character witnesses, etc.
Because the nature of judicial proceedings is to vindicate individual rights, rather than public rights, however, the general public is not as involved in judicial proceedings as they are and should be with legislative issues.
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