Posted by Paul Hyett on 11/07/06 18:45

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Citizen Bob wrote :
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>>>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.

But you've been telling me how much US juries are rigged to omit anyone
with a decent IQ. If that's true, then they can't be that reliable a way
of determining 'consent of the governed'.
>
Regards,
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Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

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