Students in a business law class at Oklahoma City's Northwest Classen High School began to wonder how familiar their elected officials were with basic legal rights. As a test of that knowl edge, they drew up a petition and two weeks ago descended on the state capitol to garner signatures from legislators. The petition read: "In view of Watergate, we the undersigned firmly demand that the Congressmen from Oklahoma support the following article: 'In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury...
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