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Cure the defect or keep the people, Graham Bell and the old project of making deafness disappear
19th-century reformers feared that schools for the deaf were breeding a deaf race. The numbers said otherwise, yet the campaign went on, against deaf marriages and against sign language. It never asked who should decide which lives need correcting.
Who Chooses the Accusers, the Grand Jury and the Long Struggle over Its Panel
The grand jury was built to stand between government and citizen. From Shaftesbury's flight to Utah's barred believers and indictments voided for racial exclusion, its independence has hinged on one question: who writes the list of jurors.
