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we should be careful to put in a provision so that juries
in civil cases will either be six or twelve.
I see the likelihood of experimentation in the
Legislature with numbers of jurors between six and twelve,
and rather than have that, inasmuch as we are writing a
Constitution, I think that we ought to set forth certain
guidelines, and it would seem to me that the correct
constitutional language would be to set a minimum and a
maxirnuni without allowing for anything in between, and I
recommend that the Committee of the Whole seriously con-
sider this amendment to the section so that civil juries
will either be six or twelve, as provided by law.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any questions of the
sponsor of the amendment?
Delegate Schneider.
DELEGATE SCHNEIDER: Delegate Johnson, I don't
understand what the magic is in six and twelve. I just
can't understand what would be wrong with seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven and if we are going to leave this flex-
ible for the Legislature, why not do that? Why not put in
an amendment the Legislature shall establish the size of