RC Drill Set 7, Question 6
For centuries trial by jury has been a(452 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(16 more words not shown)
- AIncreasing the size(14 more words not shown)
- BBecause of its(16 more words not shown)
- CSome of the(12 more words not shown)
- DThe number of(9 more words not shown)
- EA hung jury(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We know the author wants military defendants to receive greater protection. Both panel size and voting rules matter to that proposal. This is an open inference question, though, so we do not need to guess the exact answer in advance. Check what each choice asks us to add.
Working the answers
- A
Enlarging panels would fix only one concern. It would not change the nonunanimous voting rules, so we cannot conclude that size alone would make the systems equally fair.
- B
We are not told whether the military would accept or reject reform.
- CCorrect
The ending recommends reform at a minimum during peacetime (paragraph 4). Why add that qualification? It leaves room for wartime circumstances to make some differences more defensible. The answer is appropriately limited: some differences “may” be more justified during war. It does not give the military blanket permission to discard safeguards.
- D
Nine is a number of guilty votes in the twelve-member civilian jury discussed earlier. It is never proposed as the ideal size of a military panel.
- E
The hung-jury statistic does not compare small and large juries. We cannot infer which group deadlocks more often.
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