Uncle Dave, the juries were also selected by lottery, and were kept large to make sure there was a substantial cross-section of citizens' viewpoints, so the idea of their being stampeded is pretty unlikely. The trial of Socrates was a whole different thing. And it is also one of the examples of where Athenian democracy failed.

Woodruff is not maintaining that Athenian democracy was flawless. But they tried a helluva lot more diligently than we've been doing lately.

Don Firth