Rittgers & Rittgers Annual Scholarship
Through its high school scholarship program, Rittgers & Rittgers will award four scholarships totaling $10,000 to deserving high school seniors in Warren County Ohio each year. The scholarship program is intended to help local students pay for advanced education such as college, nursing, business, trade, technical training, or other similar program.
The Rittgers & Rittgers Scholarship honors four promising Warren County seniors each year for intellectual strength, independent thinking and exceptional achievement. Recipients are chosen based on their ability to achieve success through a demonstrated understanding of the principles of the United States Constitution. Rittgers & Rittgers believes in the values that our Founding Fathers memorialized in the Constitution and we want to reward those students who wish to further their education by hard work and scholarship.
Awards
Grand Prize Scholarship
$5,000
Runner-Up
$3,000
Honorable Mention
$1,000
Honorable Mention
$1,000
Essay
Our Founding Fathers believed that the jury system is the heart and soul of liberty. John Adams said, "Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them, we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, policed like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and clothed like swine and hounds." John Adams, 1774. Thomas Jefferson said, "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
The Seventh Amendment, which guarantees the right to trial by jury, has recently been under attack by politicians and special interest groups who do not want citizens to serve as jurors to determine the outcome of disputes. Please discuss why the jury system is or is not essential to a democratic society. Please limit your response to fewer than 500 words.
Disclaimer: By entering the Rittgers & Rittgers Scholarship Essay Contest, you and your parents or legal guardians release and agree to hold harmless Rittgers & Rittgers, and each of their partners or employees, from any liability whatsoever in connection with entering the contest, accepting any prize, or anything that may arise related to the contest. Once submitted, your essay becomes property of Rittgers & Rittgers and may be later published by Rittgers & Rittgers.
