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Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/07/06 16:05
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:15:23 GMT, Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:
>>Only a jury of one's peers can decide the consent of the governed.
>That would be 12 people out of 300 million, then?
Yes.
The jury of one's peers is taken as representative of community
standards. There is no better way than a jury to determine what the
community consents to.
Would you rather the godless collectivist state determines community
standards?
--
"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world."
--Clarence Darrow
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