Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! First 500 people will→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: While jury as a noun meaning a group of peers that decide the outcome of a legal proceeding has been in use English since the early 14th century, by the early 17th century, sailors had taken to using jury as an adjective that meant temporary / hastily contrived, first referring to jury-masts. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/11/things-haphazardly-built-called-jerry-rigged/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rigging http://www.word-detective.com/2012/01/jerry-rig-jury-rig/ http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=gerrymander http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/gop-redmap-memo-gerrymandering_n_2498913.html http://www.salon.com/2016/06/05/the_gop_screwed_themselves_the_brilliant_gerrymander_that_gave_republicans_the_congress_and_created_donald_trump/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_trial_by_jury_in_England http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=jury http://www.dailywritingtips.com/jury-rigged-vs-jerry-rigged/ http://grammarist.com/usage/jury-rig-jerry-rig-jerry-built/ http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jur1.htm http://articles.mcall.com/1991-11-24/news/2825340_1_salamander-federalists-districts https://archive.org/stream/mayorofgarrattco00foot/mayorofgarrattco00foot_djvu.txt http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/4/ Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generall_Historie_of_Virginia.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Wimpfen_-_014_-_Old_house.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodleian_L