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President Bush Summoned for Jury Duty

There was a scheduling conflict, so a certain McLennan County rancher will not show up Monday in Waco for jury duty after all. 'The president has other commitments,' said the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan. (New York Times, Friday)

Thomas Jefferson called juries, “the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”

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