This article adds to the growing literature about how the Supreme Court's decisions in the Insular Cases affected the residents of the U.S. territories. It focuses on the territory of Guam, which lacked juries in both criminal and civil trials until 1956–nearly sixty years after the island became a U.S. possession. Residents of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands had limited jury trials, but Guam was left out due to its strategic military significance as well as racialized ideas about the capabilities of Chamorros, the native inhabitants of the island. This article recovers the struggle by Guamanians to gain jury trials. It argues that independence movements, like those in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, were not the only forms of resistance to American empire. Through petitions, court challenges, and other forms of activism, Guamanians pushed for jury trials as a way to assert local agency and engage in participatory democracy. For them, the Insular Cases were not just abstract rulings about whether the Constitution followed the flag; they deeply affected the administration of justice on the ground for ordinary Guamanians.

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美国关岛无陪审团审判

这篇文章增加了关于最高法院在岛屿案件中的裁决如何影响美国领土居民的文献。它关注关岛的领土，直到 1956 年，即该岛成为美国属地近 60 年后，关岛在刑事和民事审判中都缺乏陪审团。波多黎各、夏威夷和维尔京群岛的居民接受了有限的陪审团审判，但关岛因其战略军事意义以及对该岛土著居民查莫罗人能力的种族化观念而被排除在外。本文回顾了关曼人争取陪审团审判的斗争。它认为，独立运动，如菲律宾和波多黎各的独立运动，并不是抵抗美国帝国的唯一形式。通过请愿、法庭挑战和其他形式的行动，关岛人推动陪审团审判，以此作为维护地方代理权和参与参与式民主的一种方式。对他们来说，岛国案不仅仅是关于宪法是否遵循国旗的抽象裁决；他们深深地影响了普通关曼人在当地的司法行政。