Some of the differences between the Athens jury practice and modern Unite States are:
1. Athens only allowed a very small group of men who owned property and who had completed their military training and were resident in Athens to vote. Women, slaves, children and foreigners were excluded from being full citizens and could not Vote.
2. In Athens, the elections were done through a system of lottery not by choosing a particular person to run for office.
3. Athens elected people did not have to have a special legal training unlike the modern US, where people have to go into a law school to work as a judge or lawyer.
4. People were arrested by citizens no by a formal police and they were tried and defended by other citizens rather than lawyers.
5. Adult male citizens who had the grace of voting had to go to the Athenian assembly on a regular basis to debate and vote on important issues like going to war, they also acted as jurors in the law courts.
<em>The only similarity</em> between the two was the fact that they were both democracies where people were given authority in the political system.
