The jury trial is aristocracy denialism. The average magistrate is likely to straight up have a lower IQ than an accused peer. Hence the jury of peerages. This assumption, among many others, simply doesn't hold for trials of accused peasants.
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Actually looking more closely, commoner juries were probably an imitation of earlier aristocratic juries. But that happened before 1166, certainly very far ahead of any move in the direction of democracy
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Exactly. The peers of a freeman are other freemen. That's what peer means.
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