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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"jury of peerages"? I think you're confused. "Jury of peers" never meant jury of people with peerages, not in AD 997 or later. Anglo tradition had juries of commoners many centuries before it had any kind of democracy.
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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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